discord bot use id to say users name code example
Example 1: discord.py mention user
#discord.py rewrite
#python 3+
bot.command(name='pingme', help='pings the author of the message')
async def pingme(ctx):
#to get a member from a 'ctx' object is ctx.author
#from there its .mention will mention (ping) the user
#also there are others like .id
await ctx.send(ctx.author.mention)
Example 2: python discord mention user
await message.channel.send(message.author.mention)