Mine tweets by keyword, date and location boundaries using Python and Tweepy and load into mysql database

mine_tweets_db.py

import tweepy
from tweepy import Stream
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener
import json
import datetime
import MySQLdb;

consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_secret = ''

auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

#mysql connection
conn = MySQLdb.connect(host= "localhost",
                  user="root",
                  passwd="root",
                  db="db_name")
x = conn.cursor()

def date_range(start,end):
   current = start
   while (end - current).days >= 0:
      yield current
      current = current + datetime.timedelta(seconds=1)

class TweetListener(StreamListener):
    def on_status(self, status):
        startDate = datetime.datetime(2015, 7, 21)
        stopDate = datetime.datetime(2015, 7, 29)
        for date in date_range(startDate,stopDate):
            try:
               x.execute("""INSERT INTO tweets(text, date) VALUES (%s,%s)""",(status.text,str(status.created_at)))
               conn.commit()
            except:
               conn.rollback()

stream = Stream(auth, TweetListener(), secure=True, )
t = u"keyword" # You can use different hashtags
stream.filter(track=[t])
stream.filter(locations=[32,-5,45,-7])
conn.close()