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request_token = open("request_token.txt",'r').read()key_secret = open("api_key.txt",'r').read().split()
Above flow seems fine. Can you re-check, if you are capturing correct request_token, api_key and api_secret?
i resolved it, made an error in passing the wrong key - thanks