Python-telegram-bot: Question: How to shutdown properly?

[Endogen]

I really fear to bring up a question that was answered 1000 times now but since i searched the issues and didn't find anything related, examples didn't include anything relevant and i didn't get a satisfying answer in the telegram group, i have to ask:

How to shutdown the bot without executing another script with
os.execl(os.dirname(__file__) + '/shutdown.py', '--')?

Is this really the only way to shutdown? Seems weird (in my case) to create an empty script that is just there to server the purpose to shutdown. I don't want to dump anything on exit. I would really just like to shutdown cleanly and easily. I can't imagine that this is such a huge problem.

EDIT: Well, not even the provided example works. I didn't test it before because it's not an option for me

[jsmnbom]

How are you running your bot? Webhooks? Polling and updater.idle?

[Endogen]

I'm using Polling and updater.idle. Just for reference, here is the implementation

[jsmnbom]

What platform are you on? You didn't really provide the required info in the issue template.

[Endogen]

Sorry for not providing the info. I didnt see it as an issue but rather as an question. Im on an Linux root server

[jsmnbom]

Have you tried something like

updater.stop()
os.exit()

?

[Endogen]

Yes. Doesnt work

[Endogen]

Something like

os.system('kill %d' % os.getpid())

does also not work

[deepserket]

hi, speaking in the group gave me the solution,
you just need to make a function like

def shutdown():
    updater.stop()
    updater.is_idle = False

and call it in a new thread in the function that is called when the shutdown command is sent, like:

def stop(bot, update):
    threading.Thread(target=shutdown).start()

updater.dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler('stop', stop))

[Endogen]

Thank you! I can confirm that it works perfectly. This really helps me a lot. I would argue that this needs to be part of the documentation / wiki

[drmaquino]

hi, speaking in the group gave me the solution,
you just need to make a function like

def shutdown():
    updater.stop()
    updater.is_idle = False

and call it in a new thread in the function that is called when the shutdown command is sent, like:

def stop(bot, update):
    threading.Thread(target=shutdown).start()

updater.dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler('stop', stop))

just to add to your correct answer, remember to import threading on the module:
( just add "import threading" at the top! )

[michaelkuzmin]

I just spent so much time trying to replicate this. so for people like me I am going to provide the full code here:

from telegram.ext import Updater, InlineQueryHandler, CommandHandler
import requests
import re
import settings
import threading

def shutdown():
    updater.stop()
    updater.is_idle = False
def stop(bot, update):
    threading.Thread(target=shutdown).start()
def main():
    dp = updater.dispatcher
    dp.add_handler(CommandHandler('stop', stop))
    updater.bot.send_message(chat_id=settings.my_id, text="Here is a message from the bot")
    updater.start_polling()
    print("Bot is waiting for user input")
    updater.idle()
    print("Last row is reached")

updater = Updater(settings.AUTH_TOKEN)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

where settings.py has AUTH_TOKEN='XXXXXXX:YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY'

[robert-cody]

Calling updater.stop() and then setting updater.is_idle to False is most incorrect way to stop a bot because it will lose all persistence, see telegram.ext.updater.Updater.signal_handler method.

The correct way would be to send usual fully supported by library signal:
os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGINT)
You can call it in any callback without creating of extra thread.