Thanks buran,I will do that next time. The compete code is as follows:
from tweepy import Stream from tweepy import OAuthHandler from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener Import time ckey='' csecret='' atoken='' asecret='' #This is the basic listener that just prints the received tweets. class Listener(StreamListener): def on_data(self,data): try: print(data) #cleaning up tweets to get only the time and text tweet=data.split(',"text":"')[1].split('","source')[0] print (tweet) saveThis=str(time.time())+"::"+tweet #saving stream data to csv file saveFile=open('twitDB2.csv', 'a') saveFile.write(saveThis) saveFile.write('\n') saveFile.close() return (True) except BaseException as e: print ('failed ondata,',str(e)) time.sleep(5) def on_error(self,status): print (status) auth=OAuthHandler(ckey,csecret) auth.set_access_token(atoken, asecret) twitterStream= Stream(auth, Listener()) twitterStream.filter(track=['car'])