getUpdates Passing offset parameter still getting the same old message

[tandavala]

Hello i have encountered this issue while using getupdates method with offset value 100000001, it is supposed not to give me the old messages, but still is giving me the old message i will share down my code and the output. I don't know what is wrong if my code or if it is a bug.

bot.getUpdates(offset=100000001)

the out put i am having is:

>>> response = bot.getUpdates(offset=100000001)
>>> pprint(response)
[{'message': {'chat': {'first_name': 'jose',
                       'id': 999999999,
                       'last_name': 'tandavala',
                       'type': 'private',
                       'username': 'ze_tanda'},
              'date': 1515496345,
              'from': {'first_name': 'jose',
                       'id': 999999999,
                       'is_bot': False,
                       'language_code': 'en-US',
                       'last_name': 'tandavala',
                       'username': 'ze_tanda'},
              'message_id': 213,
              'text': 'Ola mundo'},
  'update_id': 100000000},

@AyumuKasuga @quasiyoke @AyumuKasuga @aragaer @zumoshi @boxama

[quasiyoke]

Please try to make getUpdates request using curl with this instruction Only if Telegram does answer you with other data it's the problem with the telepot.

[ilosamart]

Hello! I've just got the exactly same behavior. Following @quasiyoke suggetion got me the same results. So, after reading the Telegram API documentation (https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#getting-updates) I've found this sentence about "offset":

Must be greater by one than the highest among the identifiers of previously received updates.

And so it is, if your last update_id is 15 and your offset is 17, the API will not "forget" the old message, but if you send 16 as offset then it will.