unable to send status message to twitter using python3.3 and its package twitter-1.9.0

Question

Using the twitter-1.9.0 (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter/1.9.0) I am trying to send a status message but unable to do it. below is the code snippet.

import twitter as t

# consumer and authentication key values are provided here.

def tweet(status):
    if len(status) > 140 :
        raise Exception ('Status message too long !!!')
    authkey = t.Twitter(auth=t.OAuth(ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET))
    authkey.statuses.update(status)

....

price = 99.99
status = "buy price is $" + str(price)
tweet(status)

error is coming like below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/tanmaya/Documents/prog/py_prog/progs/getprice.py", line 42, in <module>
    tweet(status)
  File "/home/tanmaya/Documents/prog/py_prog/progs/getprice.py", line 17, in tweet
    authkey.statuses.update(status)
TypeError: __call__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

Line number may be different. I am slightly new to these web modules and programs of python. please help !!

please note : i am using python 3.3 so I got this one only (twitter-1.9.0), from the python3.3 package pages. my complete program is a bit longer, so i donot want to move to other version of python.

Answer 1

According to the sample usage of the package you posted, you should be using the following syntax inside your def tweet(status):

authkey.statuses.update(status=status)

Note the use of the status=status... to use a keyword argument, rather than a positional parameter

To clarify, your code becomes

def tweet(status):
    if len(status) > 140 :
        raise Exception ('Status message too long !!!')
    authkey = t.Twitter(auth=t.OAuth(ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET))
    authkey.statuses.update(status=status) # <----- only this line changes

....

price = 99.99
status = "buy price is $" + str(price)
tweet(status)