Finding author of a message

Question

If someone writes \"?name (arg)\" I want my bot to say the author of the message + \", your name is\" + arg. I can\'t find of the author of the message thou

Answer 1

To get the name of the author of the message, you will need to use context

@client.command(pass_context=True)
async def name(ctx):
    username = ctx.message.author.name
    ...

Answer 2

You can also use User.display_name, which will try to to use the users server-specific nickname, but will fall back to the general username if that is not found:

@client.command(pass_context=True)
async def name(ctx):
    username = ctx.message.author.display_name

Answer 3

To get the name of the author of the message you can use the:

message.author.id