TypeError: __init__() takes at least 4 non-keyword arguments (3 given)

Question

Advice please :)

When I use this script:

class CustomStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):

    def on_status(self, status):

        # We\'ll simpl         


        

Answer 1

Your example appears to be from here. And you are using Tweepy, a Python library for accessing the Twitter API.

From Github, here is the definition of a Stream() object (assuming you have the latest version of Tweepy, please double check!),

def __init__(self, auth, listener, **options):
        self.auth = auth
        self.listener = listener
        self.running = False
        self.timeout = options.get("timeout", 300.0)
        self.retry_count = options.get("retry_count")
        self.retry_time = options.get("retry_time", 10.0)
        self.snooze_time = options.get("snooze_time",  5.0)
        self.buffer_size = options.get("buffer_size",  1500)
        if options.get("secure"):
            self.scheme = "https"
        else:
            self.scheme = "http"

        self.api = API()
        self.headers = options.get("headers") or {}
        self.parameters = None
        self.body = None

Because you seemed to have passed in the appropriate number of arguments, it looks like CustomStreamListener() isn't being initialized, and therefore isn't being passed to the Stream() class as an argument. See if you can initialize a CustomStreamListener() prior to being passed as an argument to Stream().