stdoutlistener.py

class StdOutListener(StreamListener):
    """ A listener handles tweets that are received from the stream.
    This is a basic listener that just prints received tweets to stdout.
    """
    def __init__(self):
        self.dat = list()
        self.i = 0

    def on_data(self, data):
        sdat = unicode(data.split('"text":')[1].split(',')[0].replace('"',''))
        ssdat = [sw for sw in sdat.split(' ') if not any([na for na in ['/', '\\'] if na in sw])]
        with open('tweets.txt', 'a+') as fw:
            for ss in ssdat:
                if ss not in self.dat:
                    print(ss)
                    fw.write(ss+'\n')
        
        self.dat.extend(ssdat)
        self.i += 1
        return True

    def on_error(self, status):
        print(status)