Set json data as an attribute in a tweepy Status object.

tweepy_status_monkeypatch.py

import tweepy
import json

@classmethod
def parse(cls, api, raw):
	status = cls.first_parse(api, raw)
	setattr(status, 'json', json.dumps(raw))
	return status

tweepy.models.Status.first_parse = tweepy.models.Status.parse
tweepy.models.Status.parse = parse

Many thanks, very clean solution and works like a charm!

Works, and also can be tweaked to return a dict with:
setattr(status, 'AsDict', raw)

similar to python-twitter (except its an attributive and not a method).