Traceback when updating status on twitter via Tweepy

Question

I\'ve been trying to post the readings from my Rpi on Twitter using tweepy, but first I wanted to check if tweepy was working properly, but it\'s not.<

Answer 1

The first positional argument to the update_status() method is interpreted as the media_ids parameter. You need to explicitly name your status parameter to avoid this:

api.update_status(status=single_tweet)

This is a recent change in Tweepy and it looks like their documentation hasn't been updated yet to reflect this.

The different signature has been reported as a bug for the project.

The bug was fixed in August 2015; version 3.5 or newer of Tweepy once again treat the first positional argument as the status parameter.