Telegram Bot: Basic Strategy BlackJack

Aakash Shah

Read the telegram bots introduction here: https://core.telegram.org/bots

Set up a GitHub repository and clone it in your local environment. I will soon add a template repository which has everything setup on my GitHub.

I am using VSCode on my local environment, I added the cloned repository to my workspace.

Started coding by making a virtual environment. (Good habits must not die)

python3 -m venv env
source ./env/bin/activate

I will add a freeze requirements to start with the telegram bot library.

pip install --upgrade pip
pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip install python-telegram-bot --upgrade
pip install configparser
pip freeze > requirements.txt

Here is readthedocs link for python-telegram-bot.

Follow instruction here to start a new bot using BotFather -

Adding a config file for secrets

I made a config.ini to add the telegram token provided by the BotFather and added the file to .gitignore.

Filename: config.ini

[DEFAULT]
BOT_TOKEN = 12345678:yxaibsdnlqkjsfnkandMnB3wzv7Z4nvnK4z

12345678: Your user id.

yxaibsdnlqkjsfnkandMnB3wzv7Z4nvnK4z: It is the actual token.

Clone ehchobot2 as a template

Start by cloning the example echobot2 with the telegram.ext. It is easy to learn code with examples with definite output.

Start Coding!

One of the issues i dealt with is how to capture user data in an Inline Keyboard

Also for using an inline keyboard and being compatible with multiple routes was tricky.

I had to decided upon the states of the game, patterns to function mapping, and allowing multiple routes.

Pandas!

I am going to enter the basic strategy to the csv files and then have pandas return the combination

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