Follow user in Tweepy

Question

I'm looking to follow users that follow me, but I don't already follow in Tweepy. I've got the logic, but my issue is the syntax.

    for follower in followers_list:
        if follower not in friends_list:
            to_follow.append(follower)  
            print to_follow
    for follower in to_follow:
       print follower
       api.follow(follower)

Does anyone know what I should use to follow people (in place of the api.follow, which doesn't work)

Answer 1

Is your followers_list filled with Twitter user.screen_names? If so, there's a topic on the issue that should help you out here.

The followers_list should be inside a comma-separated list, like the following:

stream = tweepy.Stream(auth, StreamWatcherListener(), timeout=None)
follow_list = ['1234567890', '2345678901']
track_list = None
stream.filter(follow_list, track_list)