How can a bot send a message if the user hasn't entered anything?

Question

Python

I have a question from a bot

mes = bot.send_message(call.chat.id, text="Введите запрос:")
bot.register_next_step_handler(mes, get_data_func)

How to make it so that if the user has not entered anything for example for 10 hours, then a message is sent to him? Where to tie if here?

Answer 1

You can't do this with the standard tools of this library.
I can offer an alternative:
When registering register_next_step_handler , pass one more parameter, which will be equal to the date of the message mes.date , and pass this parameter to the get_data_func function. In the get_data_func itself, check the difference between the date of the user's new message and the date of the previous message. If more than 10 hours - break the current script and issue a new message.

...
    mes = bot.send_message(call.chat.id, text="Введите запрос:")
    bot.register_next_step_handler(mes, get_data_func, mes.date)
...
def get_data_func(message, date):
    if message.date-date > 36000: # 10 часов в секундах
        <тут уже ваши действия>

The disadvantage of this approach is that if the user scores on the bot, no message will come to him.