A pure python, thread-safe, minimalistic and pythonic BSD Licensed AMQP/RabbitMQ library that supports Python 2.6+ and Python 3.2+. rabbitpy aims to provide a simple and easy to use API for interfacing with RabbitMQ, minimizing the programming overhead often found in other libraries.

rabbitpy may be installed via the Python package index with the tool of your choice. I prefer pip:

pip install rabbitpy

But there's always easy_install:

easy_install rabbitpy

rabbitpy is API compatible with rmqid.

https://rabbitpy.readthedocs.org

• pamqp - https://github.com/pika/pamqp
• requests - http://docs.python-requests.org/

The simple publisher is ideal for sending one off messages:

>>> rabbitpy.publish('amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/%2f',
                     exchange='test',
                     routing_key='example',
                     body='This is my test message')

If you want to add properties:

>>> rabbitpy.publish('amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/%2f',
                     exchange='test',
                     routing_key='example',
                     body='This is my test message',
                     properties={'content_type': 'text/plain'})

And publisher confirms:

>>> rabbitpy.publish('amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/%2f',
                     exchange='test',
                     routing_key='example',
                     body='This is my test message',
                     properties={'content_type': 'text/plain'},
                     confirm=True)
True
>>>

>>> m = rabbitpy.get('amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/%2f', 'test')
>>> m.json()
{u'foo': u'bar'}

>>> for message in rabbitpy.consume('amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/%2f', 'example', no_ack=True):
...     message.pprint(properties=True)
...
Exchange: amq.topic

Routing Key: example

Properties:

{'app_id': '',
 'cluster_id': '',
 'content_encoding': '',
 'content_type': '',
 'correlation_id': '',
 'delivery_mode': None,
 'expiration': '',
 'headers': None,
 'message_id': 'b191f7f4-4e9d-4420-b18a-2ac8783ab3c5',
 'message_type': '',
 'priority': None,
 'reply_to': '',
 'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 18, 21, 48, 5),
 'user_id': ''}

Body:

'This is my test message'

More complex examples are available at https://rabbitpy.readthedocs.org

• 0.14.0: Add support for authentication_failure_close and consumer priorities
• 0.13.0: Validate heartbeat is always an integer, add arguments to Queue for expires, message-ttl, max-length, & dead-lettering
• 0.12.3: Minor Message.pprint() reformatting
• 0.12.2: Add Exchange and Routing Key to Message.pprint, check for empty method frames in Channel._create_message
• 0.12.1: Fix exception with pika.exceptions.AMQP
• 0.12.0: Updated simple consumer to potential one-liner, added rabbitpy.Message.pprint()
• 0.11.0: Major bugfix focused on receiving multiple AMQP frames at the same time. Add auto-coersion of property data-types.
• 0.10.0: Rewrite of IO layer yielding improved performance and reduction of CPU usage, bugfixes
• 0.9.0: Major performance improvements, CPU usage reduction, minor bug-fixes
• 0.8.0: Major bugfixes, IPv6 support
• 0.7.0: Bugfixes and code cleanup. Most notable fix around Basic.Return and recursion in Channel._wait_on_frame.
• 0.6.0: Bugfix with Queue.get(), RPC requests expecting multiple responses and the new Queue.consume_messages() method.
• 0.5.1: Installer/setup fix
• 0.5.0: Bugfix release including low level socket sending fix and connection timeouts.