I have a discord bot with the command !sad. On execution the bot should reply with a random string from sad_list.
sad_list = ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11"]
@client.command()
async def sad(ctx, user: discord.Member=None):
print("running 'sad'")
if user is None:
await ctx.send(f"{sad_list[randint(0, len(sad_list))]} <3")
I want the option to have the bot tag someone if you execute the command with the user: discord.Member argument.
Preferred output:
@user#0000 [positive message] <3
as opposed to only
[Positive message] <3
The following has already been tried:
if user is None:
await ctx.send(f"{ctx.message.author} {sad_list[randint(0, len(sad_list))]} <3")
else:
await ctx.send(f"{user} {sad_list[randint(0, len(sad_list))]} <3")
However this simply writes:
user#0000 [positive comment] <3
As opposed to actually mentioning them
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Answer
Use user.mention to mention users
await ctx.send(f"{user.mention} {sad_list[randint(0, len(sad_list))]} <3")
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html?highlight=user%20mention#discord.User.mention
For future references, you could also mention users like this: <@!user_id>, replace user_id with the actual ID of the user. You can use this in cases where user.mention is not practical.