How do I mention a user using user's id in discord.py?

Question

I\'m trying to code a simple bot using discord.py so i started with the fun commands like just to get the hang of the api

import discord
import asyncio
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Answer 1

To mention an user and have their username to display (not their id), you'll need to add a ! to the accepted self-answer.

await client.send_message(message, '<@!20190989635716256>, hi!')

When you only have the id and not the Member or User object, I'd recommend against using Peter G's answer where they used get() or get_user_info(id) to actually fetch the User/Member object first. These operations are very time consuming and not needed since .mention only return this very string.