What if after replacing message.content with message.content.startswith it stopped working?

Question

Python

import discord

client = discord.Client()

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
if str(message.channel) == "fludilka" and message.content.startswith == "-play":
await message.channel. purge(limit=1)


client.run('---') The

bot worked with message.content, but this option does not suit me, I found that you can write message.content.startswith, but it stopped working with it altogether

Answer 1

Because startswith is a string method: https://pythonz.net/references/named/str.startswith/
And it is used as a method, not like yours