So basically in discord.py I wanted to try to prank one of my friends by deleting every message they send. I thought the code would of been simple enough to make but apparently not.

 if message.author.id == ("198562028556648448"):
     await message.delete()

CodePudding user response：

According to the Discord API Reference, the message author ID is of type int.

It's likely this is the issue, because you can easily demonstrate the non-equivalence of an integer with its string representation in the Python shell:

>>> 198562028556648448 == "198562028556648448"
False

You should therefore perform your test as follows:

if message.author.id == 198562028556648448:

Happy pranking.