getting error AttributeError: 'API' object has no attribute 'search'

[stackaccount1]

AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
21
22 replies=[]
---> 23 for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q='to:'+name, result_type='recent', timeout=999999).items(1000):
24 if hasattr(tweet, 'in_reply_to_status_id_str'):
25 if (tweet.in_reply_to_status_id_str==tweet_id):

AttributeError: 'API' object has no attribute 'search'

[stackaccount1]

not sure if they changed the API or something but it doesn't appear to work

[patilaum]

replace search by search_tweets