title: Trying to limit number of tweets returned by a program
body: <p>The code I am using is this. </p>
  
  <pre><code>import oauth2 as oauth
  import urllib2 as urllib
  
  # See assignment1.html instructions or README for how to get these credentials
  
  api_key = ""
  api_secret = ""
  access_token_key = ""
  access_token_secret = ""
  
  _debug = 0
  
  oauth_token    = oauth.Token(key=access_token_key, secret=access_token_secret)
  oauth_consumer = oauth.Consumer(key=api_key, secret=api_secret)
  
  signature_method_hmac_sha1 = oauth.SignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1()
  
  http_method = "GET"
  
  
  http_handler  = urllib.HTTPHandler(debuglevel=_debug)
  https_handler = urllib.HTTPSHandler(debuglevel=_debug)
  
  Construct, sign, and open a twitter request
  using the hard-coded credentials above.
  '''
  def twitterreq(url, method, parameters):
    req = oauth.Request.from_consumer_and_token(oauth_consumer,
                                               token=oauth_token,
                                               http_method=http_method,
                                               http_url=url,
                                               parameters=parameters)
  
    req.sign_request(signature_method_hmac_sha1, oauth_consumer, oauth_token)
  
    headers = req.to_header()
  
    if http_method == "POST":
      encoded_post_data = req.to_postdata()
    else:
      encoded_post_data = None
      url = req.to_url()
  
    opener = urllib.OpenerDirector()
    opener.add_handler(http_handler)
    opener.add_handler(https_handler)
  
    response = opener.open(url, encoded_post_data)
  
    return response
  
  def fetchsamples():
    url = "https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/sample.json?"
    parameters = ['en']
    response = twitterreq(url, "GET", parameters)
    for line in response:
      print (line.strip())
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
    fetchsamples()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So this just streams a constant stream of tweets.  I would like to limit this to 100.  I tried adding ?count=100 to the url but the count parameter is not allowed for statuses/sample.json.  Any help would be greatly apprecited.  Thanks.  </p>