How to add a function to discord.py event loop?

Question

I am using Python with discord.py. Documentation here

I\'ve got a bot that is running on a Discord server that links the server with a subr

Answer 1

The other answers here don't take into account discord.py's helpful tasks.loop decorator.

To make an event occur every 5 seconds, you would use

from discord.ext import tasks, commands

class MyCog(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self):
        self.foo.start()

    def cog_unload(self):
        self.printer.cancel()

    @tasks.loop(seconds=5.0)
    async def foo(self):
        print('bar')

More can be found here: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/tasks/