[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ Usage Patterms?

[Marek Majkowski]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 17:31, Shalom Rav <csharpplusproject at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your response.
>
> Obviosuly, my main attention goes to the application itself. So 99% of
> the time, I'd like it to just run.
>
> I am *happy* to block my app momentarily to consume incoming messages
> as they arrive. Then, when messages are consumed, I'd like the
> application to keep running.
>
> The question is, how do I achieve the above using python?
>
> So far, it looks like *channel.start_consuming()* just BLOCKS
> EVERYTHING and puts 100% of the focus on the messaging (not letting
> anything else to run).
>
> Any idea how to solve this?

I see. I guess there should be a way of doing something like
start_consuming() but with a timeout, but I can't find anything.

If you are interested in my opinion, take a look at this:
    http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/07/08/%EF%BB%BFpuka-rethinking-amqp-clients/

Cheers,
  Marek