title: I keep getting errors with an "if var.startswith" statement
body: <p>I'm trying to make it so that I can input someone into console and have it set a variable to it, and every time with the if statement it gives the error</p>
  <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>File &quot;main.py&quot;, line 58, in &lt;module&gt;
      if meInput.startswith(&quot;%send&quot;):
  AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'startswith'
  </code></pre>
  <p>Here's the code:</p>
  <pre><code>if input.startswith(&quot;%send&quot;):
    myinput = input.split(&quot; &quot;, 2)[2]
    channel = client.get_channel(12324234183172)
  </code></pre>
  <p>I've tried putting it into a variable such as <code>variable = input</code> then changing the if statement to match the variable, but it does the same thing.</p>