Kombu

Messaging library for Python.

Features

• Allows application authors to support several message server solutions by using pluggable transports.
  • AMQP transport using the py-amqp, or qpid-python libraries.
  • Virtual transports makes it really easy to add support for non-AMQP transports. There is already built-in support for Redis, Amazon SQS, ZooKeeper, SoftLayer MQ, MongoDB and Pyro.
  • In-memory transport for unit testing.
• Supports automatic encoding, serialization and compression of message payloads.
• Consistent exception handling across transports.
• The ability to ensure that an operation is performed by gracefully handling connection and channel errors.
• Several annoyances with amqplib has been fixed, like supporting timeouts and the ability to wait for events on more than one channel.
• Projects already using carrot can easily be ported by using a compatibility layer.

For an introduction to AMQP you should read the article Rabbits and warrens, and the Wikipedia article about AMQP.

See also

• Celery

Favorite site

• celery/kombu