Discord Bot Not Responding to Commands (Python)

Question

I've just gotten into writing discord bots. While trying to follow online instructions and tutorials, my bot would not respond to commands. It responded perfectly fine to on_message(), but no matter what I try it won't respond to commands. I'm sure it's something simple, but I would appreciate the help.

import discord
from discord.ext.commands import Bot
from discord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='$')
TOKEN = '<token-here>'

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'Bot connected as {bot.user}')
    
@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.content == 'test':
        await message.channel.send('Testing 1 2 3')
        
@bot.command(name='go')
async def dosomething(ctx):
    print("command called") #Tried putting this in help in debugging
    await message.channel.send("I did something")


        
bot.run(TOKEN)

Picture of me prompting the bot and the results

Answer 1

I made the same mistake at first.

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.content == 'test':
        await message.channel.send('Testing 1 2 3')

This function overiding the on_message event so it is never sent to bot.command()

To fix it you just have to add await bot.process_commands(message) at the end of the on_message function:

async def on_message(message):
    if message.content == 'test':
        await message.channel.send('Testing 1 2 3')
    await bot.process_commands(message)

Haven't tested yet but that should fix your issue.