Making a discord bot able to handle several inputs at once

Question

This is a pretty basic question but here is the issue. I am trying to make a discord bot that takes a message and delays it by a set amount of time. However, it only can handle one message at a time and will not delay any others until that one has gone through. Is there a way to make it so the bot can handle all the messages at once? here is the code for the function

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if not message.author.bot:
        await message.delete()
        time.sleep(100)
        await message.channel.send('{} : {}'.format(message.author.name,
                                                    message.content))
        await client.process_commands(message)

Answer 1

This is because time.sleep() blocks code and pretty much stops everything from working until the time set expires. What you want to use is asyncio.sleep()

import asyncio

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if not message.author.bot:
        await message.delete()
        await asyncio.sleep(100)
        await message.channel.send('{} : {}'.format(message.author.name,
                                                    message.content))
        await client.process_commands(message)

asyncio.sleep() will still allow you to do what you intended to do but also allow the bot to continue working and accept more requests/tasks.