Discord Bot Exercise 3: Poll Bot

Build a poll creator for your Discord server! Users give a question and options, and your bot formats a beautiful poll message.

Your Task

Write two functions that work together to create formatted polls.

Function 1: format_option(index, text)

• Takes a number (0, 1, 2...) and the option text
• Returns a string with an emoji number and the text
• Use this list of emoji numbers: ["1️⃣", "2️⃣", "3️⃣", "4️⃣", "5️⃣"]
• Example: format_option(0, "Pizza") → "1️⃣ Pizza"

Function 2: create_poll(question, options)

• Takes a question string and a list of option strings
• Uses a loop and calls format_option() for each option
• Returns a complete formatted poll string

The poll should look like:

📊 POLL: What should we play?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1️⃣ Minecraft
2️⃣ Roblox
3️⃣ Fortnite

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Starter Code

EMOJIS = ["1️⃣", "2️⃣", "3️⃣", "4️⃣", "5️⃣"]

def format_option(index, text):
    # Return the emoji + text for one option
    pass

def create_poll(question, options):
    # Build the full poll string
    # Start with the header, add each formatted option, end with footer
    pass

# Test your functions:
print(format_option(0, "Pizza"))  # Output: 1️⃣ Pizza
print(format_option(2, "Sushi"))  # Output: 3️⃣ Sushi
print("---")

poll1 = create_poll("What should we play?", ["Minecraft", "Roblox", "Fortnite"])
print(poll1)
print("===")

poll2 = create_poll("Best programming language?", ["Python", "JavaScript", "C++", "Scratch"])
print(poll2)

Expected Output

1️⃣ Pizza
3️⃣ Sushi
---
📊 POLL: What should we play?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1️⃣ Minecraft
2️⃣ Roblox
3️⃣ Fortnite

Vote by reacting below!
===
📊 POLL: Best programming language?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1️⃣ Python
2️⃣ JavaScript
3️⃣ C++
4️⃣ Scratch

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Hints

def format_option(index, text):
    return f"{EMOJIS[index]} {text}"

result = f"📊 POLL: {question}\n"
result += "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n"
# Add each option...
result += "\nVote by reacting below!"

for i, option in enumerate(options):
    result += format_option(i, option) + "\n"

EMOJIS = ["1️⃣", "2️⃣", "3️⃣", "4️⃣", "5️⃣"]

def format_option(index, text):
    return f"{EMOJIS[index]} {text}"

def create_poll(question, options):
    result = f"📊 POLL: {question}\n"
    result += "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n"
    for i, option in enumerate(options):
        result += format_option(i, option) + "\n"
    result += "\nVote by reacting below!"
    return result

Topics Practiced

• Functions calling functions — create_poll calls format_option
• Lists — storing options and emoji characters
• Indexing — accessing list items by position
• Loops with enumerate — getting both index and value
• String building — concatenating with += and \n
• Return values — building and returning a complex string