fix (seekers): Consider news channels as text.

Non-canonical hack to `find_channel` to include `news` types in `text`.

bot/modules/guild_admin/reaction_roles/command.py

@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ async def cmd_reactionroles(ctx, flags):
                 await ctx.error_reply(
                     "The provided channel no longer exists!"
                 )
-            elif channel.type != discord.ChannelType.text:
+            elif not isinstance(channel, discord.TextChannel):
                 await ctx.error_reply(
                     "The provided channel is not a text channel!"
                 )

bot/utils/seekers.py

@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ async def find_channel(ctx, userstr, interactive=False, collection=None, chan_ty
     # Create the collection to search from args or guild channels
     collection = collection if collection else ctx.guild.channels
     if chan_type is not None:
+        if chan_type == discord.ChannelType.text:
+            # Hack to support news channels as text channels
+            collection = [chan for chan in collection if isinstance(chan, discord.TextChannel)]
+        else:
             collection = [chan for chan in collection if chan.type == chan_type]
 
     # If the user input was a number or possible channel mention, extract it
@@ -413,7 +417,7 @@ async def find_message(ctx, msgid, chlist=None, ignore=[]):
 
 
 async def _search_in_channel(channel: discord.TextChannel, msgid: int):
-    if channel.type != discord.ChannelType.text:
+    if not isinstance(channel, discord.TextChannel):
         return
     try:
         message = await channel.fetch_message(msgid)