How to get rid of duplicate messages from a tg bot?

Question

Python

Good evening!
Faced with the problem of duplicate messages. Does anyone know how to make the bot, after entering the city, not display the previous message, but immediately go to the function?

The screenshot is not attached, unfortunately. It looks like this:
after the start, the bot welcomes, then the get_capital function is launched:
Bot: Enter the capital:
User: Prague
Bot: Enter the capital: (how to get rid of this input)
Bot: *The get_weather function is already working here*

@bot.message_handler(content_types=['text'])
def get_capital(message):
    global capital
    bot.send_message(message.chat.id, text=(em.emojize(':globe_with_meridians: Введите столицу:')))
    capital = message.text.lower()
    if capital in config.capitals:
            global page_soup
            page_url = 'https://sinoptik.ua/погода-{0}'.format(capital)
            page_soup = p.get_page_soup(page_url)
            bot.register_next_step_handler(message, get_weather(message))

Answer 1

You do not bind the handler anywhere and generally work incorrectly with register_next_step_handler
https://github.com/eternnoir/pyTelegramBotAPI/blob...

@bot.message_handler(content_types=['text'])
def get_capital(message):
    global capital
    capital_msg = bot.send_message(message.chat.id, text=(em.emojize(':globe_with_meridians: Введите столицу:')))
    capital = message.text.lower()
    if capital in config.capitals:
            global page_soup
            page_url = 'https://sinoptik.ua/погода-{0}'.format(capital)
            page_soup = p.get_page_soup(page_url)
            bot.register_next_step_handler(capital_msg, get_weather)