X-Git-Url: https://jfr.im/git/z_archive/twitter.git/blobdiff_plain/8df7be82b941c4b1c83bbfe9ed06a4026f3c08e2..e9fc8d8680c256b2aff3c521a7c98d07b334fdf4:/twitter/stream.py

diff --git a/twitter/stream.py b/twitter/stream.py
index ef82a36..45b46c0 100644
--- a/twitter/stream.py
+++ b/twitter/stream.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ except ImportError:
     import urllib2 as urllib_error
 import json
 from ssl import SSLError
+import socket
 
 from .api import TwitterCall, wrap_response
 
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ class TwitterJSONIter(object):
 
     def __iter__(self):
         sock = self.handle.fp._sock.fp._sock
+        sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_KEEPALIVE, 1)
         if not self.block:
             sock.setblocking(False)
         while True:
@@ -51,19 +53,20 @@ def handle_stream_response(req, uri, arg_data, block):
     return iter(TwitterJSONIter(handle, uri, arg_data, block))
 
 class TwitterStreamCall(TwitterCall):
-    def _handle_response(self, req, uri, arg_data):
+    def _handle_response(self, req, uri, arg_data, _timeout=None):
         return handle_stream_response(req, uri, arg_data, block=True)
 
 class TwitterStreamCallNonBlocking(TwitterCall):
-    def _handle_response(self, req, uri, arg_data):
+    def _handle_response(self, req, uri, arg_data, _timeout=None):
         return handle_stream_response(req, uri, arg_data, block=False)
 
 class TwitterStream(TwitterStreamCall):
     """
-    Interface to the Twitter Stream API (stream.twitter.com). This can
-    be used pretty much the same as the Twitter class except the
-    result of calling a method will be an iterator that yields objects
-    decoded from the stream. For example::
+    The TwitterStream object is an interface to the Twitter Stream API
+    (stream.twitter.com). This can be used pretty much the same as the
+    Twitter class except the result of calling a method will be an
+    iterator that yields objects decoded from the stream. For
+    example::
 
         twitter_stream = TwitterStream(auth=UserPassAuth('joe', 'joespassword'))
         iterator = twitter_stream.statuses.sample()