Tweepy API: how to get user id from state of SearchResult object?

Question

I am trying to write a script to follow people on twitter. The tweepy API seems pretty good, but I come across some kind of unintuitive behavior associated with matching user IDs with their screen names.

In [1]: import tweepy In [2]: api = tweepy.API() # get an arbitrary tweet In [3]: tweet = api.search("anything")[0] In [5]: tweet.text Out[5]: 'Currently mourning the [potential] loss of around 500 pictures I took while in Oklahoma. Anyone know anything about Canon Rebels?' # who tweeted it? In [6]: tweet.from_user Out[6]: 'helloregan' # get the tweeters id In [7]: tweet.from_user_id Out[7]: 101962792 # i'm paranoid. just want to make sure its right. In [8]: helloregan = api.get_user(user_id=tweet.from_user_id) # yep, same id. In [9]: helloregan.id Out[9]: 101962792 # lets check to see if its the same screen name? no. different person. In [10]: helloregan.screen_name Out[10]: 'kikiiputh' 

What gives?

Answer 1

It turned out that the problem is not tweepy: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=214

Updated for reference for any other tweepy users who are facing the same issue.