How do I find the user's name in a form?

Question

So I am currently working on a Discord.py bot and am trying to find if the user is already registered through the bot with GSpread. I've tried a few things like :

if findUser is None:
   print("User not found!")
if findUser:
   print("Found user!")

It worked when the user was found, but when I removed the username from the spreadsheet, it broke.

@bot.command()
async def finduser(message):
    user = (message.author.name+message.author.discriminator)
    print(user)
    findUser = sheet.find(user, in_column=3)

    if findUser:
        print("User found!")
    else:
        print("User not found!")

Anyways, if anyone could help me out, that would be awesome!

-ekalb2020

Answer 1

I figured it out! Was fairly simple, just was misunderstanding how to use the statement!

@bot.command()
async def finduser(message): 
    user = (message.author.name+message.author.discriminator)
    print(user)
    
    try:
        sheet.find(user, in_column=3)
    except:
        print("User not found!")
    else:
        print("User found!")

Find more on the try statement here: Determine if variable is defined in Python