This sample demonstrates how to create your own prompts with the Python Bot Framework. The bot maintains conversation state to track and direct the conversation and ask the user questions. The bot maintains user state to track the user's answers.
- Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/botbuilder-samples.git- Bring up a terminal, navigate to
botbuilder-samples\samples\python\44.prompt-for-user-inputfolder - Activate your desired virtual environment
- In the terminal, type
pip install -r requirements.txt - Run your bot with
python app.py
Microsoft Bot Framework Emulator is a desktop application that allows bot developers to test and debug their bots on localhost or running remotely through a tunnel.
- Install the Bot Framework emulator from here
- Launch Bot Framework Emulator
- File -> Open Bot
- Paste this URL in the emulator window - http://localhost:3978/api/messages
A key to good bot design is to track the context of a conversation, so that your bot remembers things like the answers to previous questions. Depending on what your bot is used for, you may even need to keep track of state or store information for longer than the lifetime of the conversation. A bot's state is information it remembers in order to respond appropriately to incoming messages. The Bot Builder SDK provides classes for storing and retrieving state data as an object associated with a user or a conversation.
To learn more about deploying a bot to Azure, see Deploy your bot to Azure for a complete list of deployment instructions.