Tweepy, how to pull count integer and use it

I trust all is well with everyone here. My apologies if this has been answered before, though I am trying to do the following.

cursor = tweepy.Cursor(    api.search_tweets,    q = '"Hello"',    lang = 'en',    result_type = 'recent',    count = 2)

I want to match the number in count, to the number of json objects I will be iterating through.

for tweet in cursor.items():    tweet_payload = json.dumps(tweet._json,indent=4, sort_keys=True)

I have tried several different ways to write the data, though it would appear that the following does not work (currently is a single fire):

    with open("Tweet_Payload.json", "w") as outfile:        outfile.write(tweet_payload)        time.sleep(.25)    outfile.close()

This is what it looks like put together.

import timeimport tweepyfrom tweepy import cursorimport Auth_Codesimport jsontwitter_auth_keys = {"consumer_key"          : Auth_Codes.consumer_key,"consumer_secret"       : Auth_Codes.consumer_secret,"access_token"          : Auth_Codes.access_token,"access_token_secret"   : Auth_Codes.access_token_secret}auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(    twitter_auth_keys["consumer_key"],    twitter_auth_keys["consumer_secret"])auth.set_access_token(    twitter_auth_keys["access_token"],    twitter_auth_keys["access_token_secret"])api = tweepy.API(auth)cursor = tweepy.Cursor(    api.search_tweets,    q = '"Hello"',    lang = 'en',    result_type = 'recent',    count = 2)for tweet in cursor.items():    tweet_payload = json.dumps(tweet._json,indent=4, sort_keys=True)    with open("Tweet_Payload.json", "w") as outfile:        outfile.write(tweet_payload)        time.sleep(.25)    outfile.close()

Edit:Using the suggestion by Mickael

also, the current code

tweet_payload = []for tweet in cursor.items():    tweet_payload.append(tweet._json)    print(json.dumps(tweet_payload, indent=4,sort_keys=True))    with open("Tweet_Payload.json", "w") as outfile:        outfile.write(json.dumps(tweet_payload,indent=4, sort_keys=True))        time.sleep(.25)

Just loops, I am not sure why thats the case when the count is 10. I thought it would run just 1 call for 10 results or less, then end.