Why is the datetime format of the api response not the same as specified in the given format?

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ValueError: time data '2022-04-01T23:53:21.000Z' does not match format '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z'

So the response does not match the given format, is this piece of code of utils.py outdated? Or has this issue already been solved?

Thanks in advance

Following issue occurs when requesting tweets in a specific timeframe

<ipython-input-76-51d491f82013> in <module>
      9 end_time = '2022-04-02T00:00:00Z'
     10 
---> 11 tweets_v2 = client.search_recent_tweets(query=query, tweet_fields=['context_annotations', 'created_at'], start_time=start_time, end_time=end_time, max_results=10)
     12 
     13 for tweet_v2 in tweets_v2.data:

~\anaconda3\envs\gpu\lib\site-packages\tweepy\client.py in search_recent_tweets(self, query, user_auth, **params)
   1253                 "since_id", "sort_order", "start_time", "tweet.fields",
   1254                 "until_id", "user.fields"
-> 1255             ), data_type=Tweet, user_auth=user_auth
   1256         )
   1257 

~\anaconda3\envs\gpu\lib\site-packages\tweepy\client.py in _make_request(self, method, route, params, endpoint_parameters, json, data_type, user_auth)
    136 
    137         data = response.get("data")
--> 138         data = self._process_data(data, data_type=data_type)
    139 
    140         includes = response.get("includes", {})

~\anaconda3\envs\gpu\lib\site-packages\tweepy\client.py in _process_data(self, data, data_type)
    149         if data_type is not None:
    150             if isinstance(data, list):
--> 151                 data = [data_type(result) for result in data]
    152             elif data is not None:
    153                 data = data_type(data)

~\anaconda3\envs\gpu\lib\site-packages\tweepy\client.py in <listcomp>(.0)
    149         if data_type is not None:
    150             if isinstance(data, list):
--> 151                 data = [data_type(result) for result in data]
    152             elif data is not None:
    153                 data = data_type(data)

~\anaconda3\envs\gpu\lib\site-packages\tweepy\tweet.py in __init__(self, data)
    128         self.created_at = data.get("created_at")
    129         if self.created_at is not None:
--> 130             self.created_at = parse_datetime(self.created_at)
    131 
    132         self.entities = data.get("entities")

~\anaconda3\envs\gpu\lib\site-packages\tweepy\utils.py in parse_datetime(datetime_string)
     13 def parse_datetime(datetime_string):
     14     return datetime.datetime.strptime(
---> 15         datetime_string, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z"
     16     ).replace(tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)

~\anaconda3\envs\gpu\lib\_strptime.py in _strptime_datetime(cls, data_string, format)
    563     """Return a class cls instance based on the input string and the
    564     format string."""
--> 565     tt, fraction = _strptime(data_string, format)
    566     tzname, gmtoff = tt[-2:]
    567     args = tt[:6] + (fraction,)

~\anaconda3\envs\gpu\lib\_strptime.py in _strptime(data_string, format)
    360     if not found:
    361         raise ValueError("time data %r does not match format %r" %
--> 362                          (data_string, format))
    363     if len(data_string) != found.end():
    364         raise ValueError("unconverted data remains: %s" %

[Harmon758]

What versions of Python and Tweepy are you using?

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Tweepy 4.8.0
Python 3.8.5

[Harmon758]

I'm unable to reproduce this with Python 3.8.
Can you provide a reproducible example (MCVE/SSCCE)?

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It was due to the python version, apparently running on a wrong environment with python 3.6