I am making a discord bot that randomly chooses an image (images) which is in the same directory (Cats) as the python file(cats.py). This is what my code looks like right now:

Cats = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "/images")@client.command()
async def cat(ctx, **kwargs):await ctx.send(choice(Cats))

I am not getting any errors. The bot goes online and when I ping it with ~cat it spits out random letters. I know my issue is with the async (possibly the kwargs) and await line, but cannot pin point exactly what is the issue. I am new to programming bots in Python so there might be a silly mistake that I am overlooking so any lead would be much appreciated!

If you send it directly by calling send right on the channel you are most likely sending the raw text of the file rather than uploading it as an image.

From the documentation you should be doing this:

Cats = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "/images")@client.command()
async def cat(ctx, **kwargs):await ctx.send(file=discord.File(choice(Cats)))

Note that Cats has to a string, i.e the path to the file.