return value of tweepy listener on status without disconnecting

Question

I try to return the value of the tweepylistener on_status function. It only returns a status when i disconnect the stream. So i thought let's implement a while true loop, so when it disconnects it restarts the stream. This way I have the output which i can use later in the code and the tweepylistener keeps streaming. Now this doesn't work. It does disconnect and reconnect the stream, but I won't get the status returned. So the last for loop doesn't print the tweet.text.

There are no errors.

Is there another way to get the on_status value returned while keeping the stream connected? I use the bot on a remote server, so i want that it keeps listening to a tweet of a specific user.

class TweetListener(tweepy.Stream):

    tweets = []
    limit = 1

    def on_status(self, status):
        self.tweets.append(status)
        if len(self.tweets) == self.limit:
            self.disconnect()
            return self.tweets

    def on_disconnect(self):
        print >> sys.stderr, 'Timeout...'
        return True # Don't kill the stream
        print("Stream restarted")

def start_stream():
    while True:
        try:
            stream_tweets = TweetListener(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)
            user = 'test'
            user_id = [api.get_user(screen_name=user).id]
            stream_tweets.filter(follow=user_id)

            for tweet in stream_tweets.tweets:
                print(tweet.text)
        except:
            continue

start_stream()