How to make a discord.py slash command option be optional and not required?

Question

I've been working on my discord bot for quite some time, I've been working on a economy system. And need to make a 'user' option, but need to make this optional so the user can just do '/balance' instead of entering there username.

I've searched about every single possible thing I can, stack overflow, google, etc.

@client.tree.command(name="balance", description="Check the balance of yourself or another user")
@app_commands.describe(user="Who's balance do you want to check?")
async def balance(interaction: discord.Interaction, user: discord.Member):
    if user == None:
        user = interaction.user
    await interaction.response.send_message(user.display_name)

is my code.

Answer 1

Discord.py optional interaction parameter

You can achieve this using Optional from the typing lib.

from typing import Optional

...

@client.tree.command(name="balance", description="...")
@app_commands.describe(user="Who's balance do you want to check?")
async def balance(interaction: discord.Interaction, user: Optional[discord.Member]): # Use Optional on your discord.Member
    if user == None:
        user = interaction.user
    await interaction.response.send_message(user.display_name)

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