How to stop, kill, stop or close a PycURL request in a streaming example using a Twitter stream

Question

Im currently cURLing the twitter API stream (http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json), so I keep getting data. I want to stop the cURLing stream as soon as I get the X number of objects from it (in the example I give 10 as an arbitrary number).

You can see how I tried to close the connection in the code below. The code below curling.perform () is never executed because it is a continuous stream of data. So I tried to close the stream in body_callback, however, since execution () is currently running, I cannot call close ().

Any help would be appreciated.

the code:

# Imports
import pycurl # Used for doing cURL request
import base64 # Used to encode username and API Key
import json # Used to break down the json objects

# Settings to access stream and API
userName = 'twitter_username' # My username
password = 'twitter_password' # My API Key
apiURL = 'http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json' # the twitter api
tweets = [] # An array of Tweets

# Methods to do with the tweets array
def how_many_tweets():
    print 'Collected: ',len(tweets)
    return len(tweets)

class Tweet:
    def __init__(self):
        self.raw = ''
        self.id = ''
        self.content = ''

    def decode_json(self):
        return True

    def set_id(self):
        return True

    def set_content(self):
        return True

    def set_raw(self, data):
        self.raw = data

# Class to print out the stream as it comes from the API
class Stream:
    def __init__(self):
        self.tweetBeingRead =''

    def body_callback(self, buf):
        # This gets whole Tweets, and adds them to an array called tweets
        if(buf.startswith('{"in_reply_to_status_id_str"')): # This is the start of a tweet
            # Added Tweet to Global Array Tweets
            print 'Added:' # Priniting output to console
            print self.tweetBeingRead # Printing output to console
            theTweetBeingProcessed = Tweet() # Create a new Tweet Object
            theTweetBeingProcessed.set_raw(self.tweetBeingRead) # Set its raw value to tweetBeingRead
            tweets.append(theTweetBeingProcessed) # Add it to the global array of tweets
            # Start processing a new tweet
            self.tweet = buf # Start a new tweet from scratch
        else:
            self.tweetBeingRead = self.tweetBeingRead+buf
        if(how_many_tweets()>10):
            try:
                curling.close() # This is where the problem lays. I want to close the stream
            except Exception as CurlError:
                print ' Tried closing stream: ',CurlError

# Used to initiate the cURLing of the Data Sift streams
datastream = Stream()
curling = pycurl.Curl()
curling.setopt(curling.URL, apiURL)
curling.setopt(curling.HTTPHEADER, ['Authorization: '+base64.b64encode(userName+":"+password)])
curling.setopt(curling.WRITEFUNCTION, datastream.body_callback)
curling.perform() # This is cURLing starts
print 'I cant reach here.'
curling.close() # This never gets called. :(

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