title: User-exclusive command in discord bot
body: <p>I'm making a Discord bot in Python and I want to create a command that only I can use. Here's an example piece of code I tried, but didn't work:</p>
  <pre><code>    #replace MY_USER_ID with user ID number.
      if message.content.startswith('$hello'):
          if message.author == &quot;&lt;@MY_USER_ID&gt;&quot;:
              await message.channel.send('Hello creator!')
          else:
              await message.channel.send('Hello!')
  </code></pre>
  <p>Using Python 3.8.5 and discord.py 1.4.1.</p>