Answer by georgemp for Using tweepy to access Twitter's Streaming API

I ran into this as well and fixed it on my local checkout by changing line 160 in streaming.py to

if delimited_string.strip().isdigit():

This seems to be a known issue/bug in Tweepy - should have checked the issues list before doing all that debugging :) -

https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/pull/173https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/pull/182