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kxpoor
kxpoor

Reputation: 1

How to convert a string to a user discord.py

I'm trying to convert a string to a user so I can dm them. Here's my current code:

    @bot.command(pass_context=True)
async def partnerwarn(ctx):
file_names = glob.glob("p*")
for file in file_names:
    f = open(file, 'r')
    content = f.read()
    f.close()
    member = file[1:]      
    await bot.send_message(member : discord.User, "You've had under 7 partners! This is a warning, please make sure you actively partner!")
    print("Warned!")
    await bot.reply("**" + file[1:] + " was warned!**")

It doesn't work because member : discord.User is invalid syntax where it currently is. How should I fix this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6122

Answers (1)

Patrick Haugh
Patrick Haugh

Reputation: 60944

When the command decorator sees an annotation on one of the arguments to the decorated coroutine, it knows to either use the correct converter or directly apply the annotation as a callable before the argument is passed to the underlying coroutine.

You can create your own MemberConverter objects and use them to convert strings to Members by using their convert coroutines:

from discord.ext.commands import MemberConverter

...

converter = MemberConverter()
member = await converter.convert(ctx, file[1:])

Upvotes: 4

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