From fdb8c69164cd215f9e2dd3027feadf167f06bb39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Roesslein <jroesslein@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:05:23 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Allow API.send_direct_message() to accept either
 user/screen_name/user_id

---
 CHANGELOG     | 1 +
 tweepy/api.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 1560cee..e6c8308 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ during upgrade will be listed here.
 + API
 	- retweet() method now works correctly
     - Added local trends method: trends_available() and trends_location()
+	- send_direct_message() now accepts either a user/screen_name/user_id for recipient of DM
 + tweepy.debug() enables httplib debug mode
 + New Sphinx documentation (Thanks Kumar!) in doc/
 
diff --git a/tweepy/api.py b/tweepy/api.py
index e4b9874..0b46c93 100644
--- a/tweepy/api.py
+++ b/tweepy/api.py
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ class API(object):
         path = '/direct_messages/new.json',
         method = 'POST',
         parser = parse_dm,
-        allowed_param = ['user', 'text'],
+        allowed_param = ['user', 'screen_name', 'user_id', 'text'],
         require_auth = True
     )
 
-- 
2.25.1