Getting display_name from user ID | Pycord | Page 1

neon furnace Sep 10, 2022, 11:16 AM

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currently i get error saying NoneType has no attribute display_name :(

zenith pilot Sep 10, 2022, 11:20 AM

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Well NoneType would mean that your variable isn’t a Member or User, so you’ll need to check how you’re attempting to fetch the user to begin with

neon furnace Sep 10, 2022, 11:32 AM

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ctx.guild.get_member(id)

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this is for a command, it generates leaderboard for an xp system

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and currently it displays username with tags, but I want it to show the display name

zenith pilot Sep 10, 2022, 11:37 AM

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Yeah but if it’s complaining that it’s NoneType, then you didn’t actually fetch the user for some reason. A more complete code snippet (enclosed in code blocks, or in a gist or other pastebin type link) would be helpful

neon furnace Sep 10, 2022, 11:38 AM

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zenith pilot Sep 10, 2022, 11:40 AM

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Okay, so presumably name is a Member object; it’s using str conversion here which is why it shows up as User#Discriminator

What about name.mention? That way your output will always be the user’s current display name

neon furnace Sep 10, 2022, 11:41 AM

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zenith pilot Okay, so presumably `name` is a Member object; it’s using str conversion here wh...

yeah that'd be okay, but it's kinda awkward that everytime someone asks for the leaderboard 30 members will get tagged 😄

zenith pilot Sep 10, 2022, 11:44 AM

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Put it in an embed and they won’t get tagged. Alternatively, there’s an “allowed_mentions” option for send that won’t ping users; check the docs for exact syntax

#Getting display_name from user ID