Unable to stop Streaming in tweepy after one minute

Question

I am trying to stream twitter data for a period of time of say 5 minutes, using the Stream.filter() method. I am storing the retrieved tweets in a JSON file. The problem is I am

Answer 1

Access the variable myListener.running but instead of passing MyListener directly to Stream create a variable as follows:

myListener = MyListener()
timeout code here... suchas time.sleep(20)
myListener.running = False