How to use the tweepy.models.Status function in tweepy

def update_status(self, **kwargs):
        self._updates.append(kwargs)
        r = Status(api=self)
        setattr(r, 'id', len(self._updates))
        setattr(r, 'author', self.me())
        # Status.user is "DEPRECIATED" so we omit it
        return r

def on_data(self, data):
        
        if 'in_reply_to_status_id' in data:
            status = Status.parse(self.api, json.loads(data))
            if self.on_status(status, data) is False:
                return False
        elif 'delete' in data:
            delete = json.loads(data)['delete']['status']
            if self.on_delete(delete['id'], delete['user_id']) is False:
                 return False
        elif 'limit' in data:
            if self.on_limit(json.loads(data)['limit']['track']) is False:
                return False

data = json.loads(raw_data)

        if 'in_reply_to_status_id' in data:
            status = Status.parse(self.api, data)
            if self.on_status(status) is False:
                return False
        elif 'delete' in data:
            delete = data['delete']['status']
            if self.on_delete(delete['id'], delete['user_id']) is False:
                return False
        elif 'event' in data:
            status = Status.parse(self.api, data)
            if self.on_event(status) is False:
                return False
        elif 'direct_message' in data:
            status = Status.parse(self.api, data)
            if self.on_direct_message(status) is False:
                return False
        elif 'friends' in data:
            if self.on_friends(data['friends']) is False:
                return False
        elif 'limit' in data:
            if self.on_limit(data['limit']['track']) is False:
                return False
        elif 'disconnect' in data:
            if self.on_disconnect(data['disconnect']) is False:
                return False
        elif 'warning' in data:
            if self.on_warning(data['warning']) is False:
                return False
        else:
            logging.error("Unknown message type: " + str(raw_data))

def on_data(self, data):
        """Called when raw data is received from connection.

        Override this method if you wish to manually handle
        the stream data. Return False to stop stream and close connection.
        """

        if 'in_reply_to_status_id' in data:
            status = Status.parse(self.api, json.loads(data))
            if self.on_status(status) is False:
                return False
        elif 'delete' in data:
            delete = json.loads(data)['delete']['status']
            if self.on_delete(delete['id'], delete['user_id']) is False:
                return False
        elif 'limit' in data:
            if self.on_limit(json.loads(data)['limit']['track']) is False:
                return False

def gen_tuple(jsontweet):
    tweet = Status.parse(api, json.loads(jsontweet))
    retweeted = (getattr(tweet, 'retweeted_status', None) != None)
    return (tweet.author.id, tweet.created_at, convert_to_utf8_str(tweet.text), retweeted)

def any_tweet_to_str(tweet):
    """ Status / unicode / str """
    if isinstance(tweet, tweepy.models.Status):
        tweet_text = tweet_to_text(tweet)
    else:
        tweet_text = tweet
    if isinstance(tweet_text, unicode):
        return tweet_text.encode('utf-8')
    elif isinstance(tweet, str):
        return tweet_text
    else:
        print 'Unknown tweet type:', type(tweet)
        return None