How can I make my bot execute the same action while using different messages?

Question

Let's say I have a list.

List = ["Hello", "Sup", "Hi", "Yo"]

I want my bot to send the same message even if I use any of these words. If the person says Hello, bot will reply with Hello, If the user says Hi, bot will reply with Hello, and so on.

Now, I want to use message.content.startswith for this case, so that if the person types Hello along with other things (for example "Hello bot! Nice to see you.") the bot will still reply. I tried to use message.content, but if I have other words besides the "key" one, the bot won't reply.

I tried

List = ["Hello", "Sup", "Hi", "Yo"]

if message.content.startswith(List):
    await bla bla bla

but I got an error saying that the first arg. for startswith cannot be a list. And so yeah, that's basically it. I tried using the "any" function, but I noticed that's not really what I need (as far as I'm concerned, perhaps it is and I am wrong). But this is basically what I want: the bot to reply with the same thing whether if the person says Hello, Sup, Hi, etc...

Answer 1

if message.content.split()[0] is in List:
#Do something

This should work and allows you to change whatever in your list and it still work

You could also use message.split()[0].upper() and make sure every word in the list is fully uppercase so it doesnt matter what case the user enters

Answer 2

Best practices suggest using a different variable name than List. That said:

if message.split(' ')[0] is in List:
     await bla bla bla

will check if the first word of the message is in your list, and if so then execute the rest of your code.

Answer 3

str.startswith() can take a tuple as an argument, so you can just do

tup = ("Hello", "Sup", "Hi", "Yo",)
if message.content.startswith(tup):
    # do something