From 38cc96d0f3de26ac341365e76a63f30ddd468c0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SwissCorePy <51398037+SwissCorePy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:31:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added property `user` to TeleBot class

Added property `user` to TeleBot class. The idea is to have easy access to the user object representing the bot without doing an API call every time.
---
 telebot/__init__.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/telebot/__init__.py b/telebot/__init__.py
index 49a24ca75..cdcbec29c 100644
--- a/telebot/__init__.py
+++ b/telebot/__init__.py
@@ -207,6 +207,16 @@ def __init__(
         self.threaded = threaded
         if self.threaded:
             self.worker_pool = util.ThreadPool(num_threads=num_threads)
+    
+    @property
+    def user(self) -> types.User:
+        """
+        The User object representing this bot.
+        Equivalent to bot.get_me() but the result is cached so only one API call is needed
+        """
+        if not hasattr(self, "_user"):
+            self._user = types.User.de_json(self.get_me())
+        return self._user
 
     def enable_save_next_step_handlers(self, delay=120, filename="./.handler-saves/step.save"):
         """