From: Harmon <Harmon758@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:51:06 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Change Stream._thread to thread
X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c2419d09c2b5af101a730917308d89dced0861a;p=tweepy.git

Change Stream._thread to thread
---

diff --git a/tweepy/streaming.py b/tweepy/streaming.py
index 716b1b7..5dfd05e 100644
--- a/tweepy/streaming.py
+++ b/tweepy/streaming.py
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ class Stream:
 
         self.running = False
         self.session = None
+        self.thread = None
 
     def _connect(self, endpoint, params=None, body=None):
         self.running = True
@@ -226,9 +227,9 @@ class Stream:
             self.running = False
 
     def _threaded_connect(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        self._thread = Thread(target=self._connect, name="Tweepy Stream",
-                              args=args, kwargs=kwargs, daemon=self.daemon)
-        self._thread.start()
+        self.thread = Thread(target=self._connect, name="Tweepy Stream",
+                             args=args, kwargs=kwargs, daemon=self.daemon)
+        self.thread.start()
 
     def filter(self, follow=None, track=None, threaded=False, locations=None,
                stall_warnings=False, languages=None, filter_level=None):