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+# This example covers advanced startup options and uses some real world examples for why you may need them.
+
+import asyncio
+import logging
+import logging.handlers
+import os
+
+from typing import List, Optional
+
+import asyncpg  # asyncpg is not a dependency of the discord.py, and is only included here for illustrative purposes.
+import discord
+from discord.ext import commands
+from aiohttp import ClientSession
+
+
+class CustomBot(commands.Bot):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        *args,
+        initial_extensions: List[str],
+        db_pool: asyncpg.Pool,
+        web_client: ClientSession,
+        testing_guild_id: Optional[int] = None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.db_pool = db_pool
+        self.web_client = web_client
+        self.testing_guild_id = testing_guild_id
+        self.initial_extensions = initial_extensions
+
+    async def setup_hook(self) -> None:
+
+        # here, we are loading extensions prior to sync to ensure we are syncing interactions defined in those extensions.
+
+        for extension in self.initial_extensions:
+            await self.load_extension(extension)
+
+        # In overriding setup hook,
+        # we can do things that require a bot prior to starting to process events from the websocket.
+        # In this case, we are using this to ensure that once we are connected, we sync for the testing guild.
+        # You should not do this for every guild or for global sync, those should only be synced when changes happen.
+        if self.testing_guild_id:
+            guild = discord.Object(self.testing_guild_id)
+            # We'll copy in the global commands to test with:
+            self.tree.copy_global_to(guild=guild)
+            # followed by syncing to the testing guild.
+            await self.tree.sync(guild=guild)
+
+        # This would also be a good place to connect to our database and
+        # load anything that should be in memory prior to handling events.
+
+
+async def main():
+
+    # When taking over how the bot process is run, you become responsible for a few additional things.
+
+    # 1. logging
+
+    # for this example, we're going to set up a rotating file logger.
+    # for more info on setting up logging,
+    # see https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/logging.html and https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging.html
+
+    logger = logging.getLogger('discord')
+    logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+
+    handler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(
+        filename='discord.log',
+        encoding='utf-8',
+        maxBytes=32 * 1024 * 1024,  # 32 MiB
+        backupCount=5,  # Rotate through 5 files
+    )
+    dt_fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
+    formatter = logging.Formatter('[{asctime}] [{levelname:<8}] {name}: {message}', dt_fmt, style='{')
+    handler.setFormatter(formatter)
+    logger.addHandler(handler)
+
+    # One of the reasons to take over more of the process though
+    # is to ensure use with other libraries or tools which also require their own cleanup.
+
+    # Here we have a web client and a database pool, both of which do cleanup at exit.
+    # We also have our bot, which depends on both of these.
+
+    async with ClientSession() as our_client, asyncpg.create_pool(user='postgres', command_timeout=30) as pool:
+        # 2. We become responsible for starting the bot.
+
+        exts = ['general', 'mod', 'dice']
+        async with CustomBot(commands.when_mentioned, db_pool=pool, web_client=our_client, initial_extensions=exts) as bot:
+
+            await bot.start(os.getenv('TOKEN', ''))
+
+
+# For most use cases, after defining what needs to run, we can just tell asyncio to run it:
+asyncio.run(main())