How to make bot send message every 30 seconds, Python Aiogram?

Question

Python

it is necessary that the bot send a message (a random bunch of words from the list) once every 30 seconds to the conversation, so that the cycle is endless and does not break. I already have the code, but the problem is that the bot works properly (posts a message to the conversation as it should), BUT because of my function, the bot began to ignore commands (for example, !help). here is my function itself:

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
bot = Bot("3213213131", loop)

a = ["привет", "мир", ]
print(random.choice(a))

b = ["как", "дела?", ]
print(random.choice(b))

local_time = "30"
from aiogram import Bot
import asyncio
import time
import random

async def helloworld():
    while True:
        bot_info = await bot.get_me()
        print(bot_info.username)
        time.sleep(int(local_time))
        await dp.bot.send_message(config.GROUP_ID, text = (random.choice(a) +" "+ random.choice(b)))
        print(random.choice(a))
        print(random.choice(b))
    
    

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        loop.run_until_complete(helloworld())
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        loop.stop()



#run long-polling
if __name__ == "__main__":
    executor.start_polling(dp, skip_updates=True)

by the way, the console does not give errors and in fact everything works as it should, except for ignoring commands (for example !help)

Answer 1

Well, firstly, why do you need 2 main blocks?
At the same time, note that the first main block will not finish running until your helloworld() coroutine finishes running, since you are using the run_until_complete() method. And your coroutine will never finish its work.
Use loop.create_task() to schedule a coroutine to run "in the free time" of the system and continue working.

if __name__ == '__main__':
  loop.create_task(helloworld())
  executor.start_polling(dp, skip_updates=True)

Secondly, long-running synchronous operations in a coroutine block its work, and the work of other coroutines. This is the basics of asynchronous programming, damn it!
Therefore, your time.sleep() hangs the entire bot. Use await asyncio.sleep() , it will give control to other coroutines of the bot while the current coroutine sleeps.