This distribution contains the Python client libraries for Apache Qpid. Apache Qpid is a high-speed, language independent, platform independent enterprise messaging system. It currently provides two messaging brokers (one implemented in C++, one implemented in Java), and messaging client libraries for Java JMS, C++, C# .NET, Python, Ruby, and WCF. The messaging protocol for Apache Qpid is AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). You can read more about Qpid here: http://qpid.apache.org/ Documentation can be found here: http://qpid.apache.org/documentation.html = GETTING STARTED = 1. Make sure the Qpid Python client libraries are on your PYTHONPATH. If you have extracted the archive to the directory INSTALLPATH, the following export will work: $ export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:${INSTALLPATH}/qpid-0.8/python 2. Make sure a broker is running 3. Run the 'hello' example from qpid-0.8/python/examples/api: $ ./hello Hello world! = EXAMPLES = The examples/api directory contains several examples. Read examples/README.txt for further details on these examples. = RUNNING THE TESTS = The "tests" directory contains a collection of unit tests for the python client. The "tests_0-10", "tests_0-9", and "tests_0-8" directories contain protocol level conformance tests for AMQP brokers of the specified version. The qpid-python-test script may be used to run these tests. It will by default run the python unit tests and the 0-10 conformance tests: 1. Run a broker on the default port 2. ./qpid-python-test If you wish to run the 0-8 or 0-9 conformence tests, they may be selected as follows: 1. Run a broker on the default port 2. ./qpid-python-test tests_0-8.* -- or -- ./qpid-python-test tests_0-9.* See the qpid-python-test usage for for additional options: ./qpid-python-test -h