[rabbitmq-discuss] Async Python AMQP client lib

Mon Oct 12 15:05:56 BST 2009

Thank you all for the advice - looks like I need to give txAMQP a  
better shot. Just had some issues though getting zope_interface to  
install on Snow Leopard under Python 2.6.3, not sure why...

Thanks!

Sébastien

On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Laurens Van Houtven wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Sébastien <arnaudsj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have looked at tx-amqplib, but I don't like the heavy dependencies
>> on twisted, zope, etc...
>
> Have you used Twisted before? Not to be snide, it's just that the
> perceived heaviness of Twisted is grossly exaggerated :-)
>
> The only dependency in Zope AFAIK is zope interfaces, which most
> distributions package separately. Also, I don't think txAMQP actually
> needs all of Twisted -- which is to say I'm pretty sure it works with
> just the Twisted core libs, which can be installed separately (and,
> again, are generally packaged separately).
>
> So yeah, +1 for txAMQP. Use it, it's awesome! It's also written
> (mostly) by Esteve, and Esteve is awesome too.
>
> Another important thing is that it actually works properly, which is
> apparently more than can be said about the alternative :-)
>
>> Thank you in advance for your advice!
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Sébastien Arnaud
>> arnaudsj at gmail.com
>
>
> Enjoy
> Laurens