replying to tweet with image using tweepy

Question

i'm trying to tweepy to reply to certain tweets, and my reply includes an image.
the twt variable holds the tweet i'm trying to reply to.
here's what i'm doing at the moment:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import tweepy, time, random  



CONSUMER_KEY = 'XXXX'

CONSUMER_SECRET = 'XXXX'

ACCESS_KEY = 'XXXX'

ACCESS_SECRET = 'XXXX'  



auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)

auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)

api = tweepy.API(auth)  



query = ['aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc']

t0 = time.time()

count = 0

last_count = 0



f = open('last_replied.txt')

last_replied = int(f.readline().strip())

f.close()

print('starting time:', time.strftime('%X'))



while True:

    if count > last_count:

        print(time.strftime('%X'), ':', count, 'replies')

        last_count = count

    for i in range(3):

        twts = api.search(query[i], since_id=last_replied)

        if len(twts)>0:

            for twt in twts:

                sid = twt.id

                sn = twt.user.screen_name

                stat = "lalala" + "@" + sn

                api.update_with_media('oscar1.gif',status=stat,in_reply_to_status_id=sid)

                count += 1

                last_replied = twt.id

                f = open('last_replied.txt','w')

                f.write(str(last_replied))

                f.close()

        pause = random.randint(50,90)

        time.sleep(pause)

my tweet gets posted, but not as a reply to the original tweet (twt). instead, it just gets posted as a new, independent, tweet.

however, when instead of update_with_media as above, i use update_status, such as:

api.update_status(status=stat,in_reply_to_status_id=sid)

my new tweet does get posted as a reply to the original tweet (twt).

what am i missing?

thanks

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Answer 1

the solution i ended up with was switching to the twython module, which s the functionality well documented and working perfectly. thank you very much for your help.

replying to tweet with image using tweepy

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