Permission System for Discord.py Bot

Question

I am in the process of making a discord bot using discord.py and asyncio. The bot has commands like kick and ban which obviously should not be avai

Answer 1

Permissions is the name of the class. To get the message authors permissions, you should access the server_permissions property of the author.

if ctx.message.author.server_permissions.administrator:
 # you could also use server_permissions.kick_members

Update:

A better way to validate the permissions of the person invoking the commands is by using the check feature of the commands extension, specifically the has_permissions check. For example, if you wanted to open your command only to people who had either the manage_roles permission or the ban_members permission, you could write your command like this:

from discord import Member
from discord.ext.commands import has_permissions, MissingPermissions

@bot.command(name="kick", pass_context=True)
@has_permissions(manage_roles=True, ban_members=True)
async def _kick(ctx, member: Member):
    await bot.kick(member)

@_kick.error
async def kick_error(error, ctx):
    if isinstance(error, MissingPermissions):
        text = "Sorry {}, you do not have permissions to do that!".format(ctx.message.author)
        await bot.send_message(ctx.message.channel, text)