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+from config import *
+import discord
+from discord.ext import commands
+from datetime import datetime
+
+bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix=prefix)
+
+@bot.event #print the username and id to the console
+async def on_ready():
+    print('Logged in as')
+    print(bot.user.name)
+    print(bot.user.id)
+    print('------')
+
+@bot.command(pass_context=True, brief="prints the ping time of the bot")
+async def ping(ctx):#prints the ping and the time the bot needed to process this command
+    now = datetime.utcnow()#get the current time
+    delta = round((now.microsecond - ctx.message.created_at.microsecond) /1000)#substract the time the message was created from the current time 8in microsecconds), convert this to millisecconds and round
+    embed = discord.Embed(title=":ping_pong: | Pong!", description="```prolog\nLatency :: " + str(round(bot.latency * 1000)) + "ms\nResponse :: " + str(delta) + "ms```")#make the response, we format it as code and select prolog as language for nice cloloring
+
+    await ctx.message.channel.send(embed=embed)#send the prepared message
+
+bot.run(token)#start the bot with the token in config.py
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