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simple furnaceBOT Jun 25, 2025, 11:13 AM

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spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 11:13 AM

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def generate_stripe_customer_id(first_name: str, last_name: str, email: str):
    client = StripeClient(api_key=key)
    stripe_customer = client.customers.create(
        name=first_name + " " + last_name,
        email=email,
    )
    stripe_customer_id = stripe_customer.id
    return stripe_customer_id

little hazel Jun 25, 2025, 11:13 AM

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hi there!

spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 11:15 AM

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  File "/Users/andremaytorena/Desktop/order-fulfillment-dashboard/backend/test.py", line 15, in <module>
    print(generate_stripe_customer_id("Julian", "Senti", "juliansenti98@gmail.com"))
  File "/Users/andremaytorena/Desktop/order-fulfillment-dashboard/backend/test.py", line 8, in generate_stripe_customer_id
    stripe_customer = client.customers.create(
TypeError: CustomerService.create() got an unexpected keyword argument 'name'```

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Hey!

little hazel Jun 25, 2025, 11:16 AM

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you could set your API key in each individual requests? you can see an example of this here: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-python?tab=readme-ov-file#per-request-configuration

spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 11:17 AM

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spice gust ```py def generate_stripe_customer_id(first_name: str, last_name: str, email: st...

Yeah that's what I tried

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But it get the error I sent above

little hazel Jun 25, 2025, 11:22 AM

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the code you shared and the code I shared are quite different. the API key is directly set in teh API call itself:

client.customers.list(
    options={
        "api_key": "sk_test_...",
    }
)

spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 11:23 AM

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Ohh let me try that

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def generate_stripe_customer_id(first_name: str, last_name: str, email: str):
    client = StripeClient(api_key=key)
    stripe_customer = client.customers.create(
        name=first_name + " " + last_name,
        email=email,
        options={
            "api_key": "sk_test...",
        }
    )
    stripe_customer_id = stripe_customer.id
    return stripe_customer_id```

So like this?

little hazel Jun 25, 2025, 11:25 AM

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I think so yes

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but you need to replace sk_test with your real key

spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 11:26 AM

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yeah I have my real key i just retyped it in chat

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  File "/Users/andremaytorena/Desktop/order-fulfillment-dashboard/backend/test.py", line 18, in <module>
    print(generate_stripe_customer_id("Julian", "Senti", "juliansenti98@gmail.com"))
  File "/Users/andremaytorena/Desktop/order-fulfillment-dashboard/backend/test.py", line 8, in generate_stripe_customer_id
    stripe_customer = client.customers.create(
TypeError: CustomerService.create() got an unexpected keyword argument 'name'```

But I still get this error, I also upgraded the pip stripe version to the latest

little hazel Jun 25, 2025, 11:28 AM

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can you try something simpler, like just client.customers.list() to see if it works?

spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 11:31 AM

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Yes that is working fine

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It lists all of my customers

little hazel Jun 25, 2025, 11:32 AM

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and client.customers.create() (with no parameters)

spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 11:34 AM

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Checking one sec

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Ok that worked

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So I assume I'll need to then update the client and set the name and email?

little hazel Jun 25, 2025, 11:37 AM

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and now if you try with a hardcoded name? client.customers.create(name="test")?

spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 11:49 AM

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Checking that now

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Same error, unexpected param

little hazel Jun 25, 2025, 11:50 AM

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which version of stripe-python are you using?

spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 11:51 AM

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Name: stripe
Version: 12.2.0```

little hazel Jun 25, 2025, 11:59 AM

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that's the latest version. not sure why you get that error. thinking...

simple furnaceBOT Jun 25, 2025, 12:04 PM

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brazen stump Jun 25, 2025, 12:09 PM

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Hi 👋

I'm stepping in as my colleague needs to go soon

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Can you try make two changes to your customer creatiion code? Can you try the following

customer = stripe.Customer.create(name="Testy Testface")

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Oh sorry, that is using the older, resource pattern. Since you are instantiating the StripeClient class you will want to pass all your parameters in a dictionary.

customer = client.customer.create({'name': 'Test'})

spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 12:21 PM

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I see I’ll try that now

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Ok perfect that worked, I assume all endpoints then follow the same structure using this new system?

brazen stump Jun 25, 2025, 12:23 PM

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We document the new shape of requests using this approach here

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Slightly different. For requests that expect an ID as the first parameter, that is still separate.

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For example

customer = client.customers.update(
  "cus_123",
  params={
    "description": "new description",
  }
)

spice gust Jun 25, 2025, 12:24 PM

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Ok I see, i'll begin changing the rest of my stripe endpoints and test for bugs

brazen stump Jun 25, 2025, 12:24 PM

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It can get a little confusing if you've used the older pattern for a long time (it trips me up often 😅 )

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