I am trying to tag the username in description field from python code

[prema r]

For the description field in jira, I'm trying to tag user from python code. It always expects me to send string value. So when I'm trying to tag user like:

issue.update(fields={'description': "[~{}]".format(username)})

I'm getting an error saying: response text = {"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"description":"Operation value must be a string"}}

Is there away to tag the username in description field

[prema r]

issue.update(fields={'description': "[~jirausername]"}) Worked for me.