Kite websocket - older version error

I'm getting the following error from 2nd February 2018 on an existing websocket app thats been working for 3 months now.

"reconnect_now() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given"

can't figure out whats broken. can someone help?

Heres the reconnect function as in the code

def reconnect_now(ws):
global record_count
if(timeout == 0):
ws.connect()
logger.error("reconnecting on disconnect / error, Record Count :"+ str(record_count))