How do i make the bot mention someone just by typing out the user's name without the tag

Question

for example:

me: -mention LOL

Bot: @LOL

Answer 1

You can use member: discord.Member as an required argument.

If you want to mention a user you have to use member.mention .

Here is an example code:

@client.command() # Or whatever you use
async def mention(ctx, member: discord.Member = None): 
    if member == None: # If no argument was passed
        await ctx.send(ctx.author.mention) # Mention the author of the command
    else:
        await ctx.send(member.mention) # Mention the member

Here is how it looks like: