Transaction simulation failed: Error processing Instruction 0: incorrect program id for instruction",

[thekingisherenow]

I keep on getting this error while creating associated token, wbout the wrong program ID. The sccoaited token address got from the getter function is also not in chain- when I did solana_client.get_account_info of the value from getters of associated tokne, the value is none. showing that it doesnt exits..
When I try to create it and send transaction, fails with incorrect program id.

I am using usdc as example. and wish to create asscoaited key of sender to that token. this error shows up:

from solana.rpc.async_api import AsyncClient
from spl.token.constants import TOKEN_PROGRAM_ID, ASSOCIATED_TOKEN_PROGRAM_ID
from solders.pubkey import Pubkey

solana_client = AsyncClient("https://api.devnet.solana.com")
res = await solana_client.is_connected()
print("isConnected?", res) # True

    sender_key_pair = await load_private_key('sender.json')
    receiver_key_pair = await load_private_key('receiver.json')

    token_address = "EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v"

    # Directly create the Pubkey from the Base58 string
    token_address_public_key = Pubkey.from_string(token_address)

    # # Create token client
    token_client = AsyncToken(
        solana_client, token_address_public_key, TOKEN_PROGRAM_ID, sender_key_pair)

    sender_associated_token_address = get_associated_token_address(
        sender_key_pair.pubkey(), token_address_public_key)
    print("sender_associated_token_address",
          sender_associated_token_address)

    create_ata_instruction = create_associated_token_account(
        payer=sender_key_pair.pubkey(),
        owner=receiver_key_pair.pubkey(),
        mint=token_address_public_key
        # , token_program_id=TOKEN_PROGRAM_ID
    )
    msg = Message([create_ata_instruction], sender_key_pair.pubkey())
    latest_blockhash = (await solana_client.get_latest_blockhash()).value.blockhash
    transaction_signature_response = await solana_client.send_transaction(Transaction([sender_key_pair], msg, latest_blockhash))
    print("transaction_signature_response",
          transaction_signature_response)

Output : Transaction failed with error: SendTransactionPreflightFailureMessage { message: "Transaction simulation failed: Error processing Instruction 0: incorrect program id for instruction", data: RpcSimulateTransactionResult(RpcSimulateTransactionResult { err: Some(InstructionError(0, IncorrectProgramId)), logs: Some(["Program ATokenGPvbdGVxr1b2hvZbsiqW5xWH25efTNsLJA8knL invoke [1]", "Program log: Create", "Program TokenkegQfeZyiNwAJbNbGKPFXCWuBvf9Ss623VQ5DA invoke [2]", "Program log: Instruction: GetAccountDataSize", "Program log: Error: IncorrectProgramId", "Program TokenkegQfeZyiNwAJbNbGKPFXCWuBvf9Ss623VQ5DA consumed 884 of 192908 compute units", "Program TokenkegQfeZyiNwAJbNbGKPFXCWuBvf9Ss623VQ5DA failed: incorrect program id for instruction", "Program ATokenGPvbdGVxr1b2hvZbsiqW5xWH25efTNsLJA8knL consumed 7976 of 200000 compute units", "Program ATokenGPvbdGVxr1b2hvZbsiqW5xWH25efTNsLJA8knL failed: incorrect program id for instruction"]), accounts: None, units_consumed: Some(7976), return_data: None, inner_instructions: None }) }