RabbitMQ AMQP 1.0 Python Client

This library is meant to be used with RabbitMQ 4.x.

Version 2.0 is coming

Version 1.0 will be deprecated in the November 2026. Please follow the version 2.0 Consider upgrading the library to version 2.0. Check the 2.x releases

Install

The client is distributed via PIP:

 pip install rabbitmq-amqp-python-client

Getting Started

Inside the examples folder you can find a set of examples that show how to use the client.

Documentation

Client Guide select the python section.

Build

• make rabbitmq-server: run the RabbitMQ server in a docker container
• poetry build: build the source project
• poetry install: resolves and install dependencies
• make test: run the tests

Note for MAC users:

To run TLS you need to:

- pip uninstall python-qpid-proton
- brew install swig
- brew install pkg-config
- export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"; pip install python-qpid-proton --verbose --no-cache-dir

Read more about the issue here

SSL Problems in local environment

If when running tests, this exceptions is raised by the proton library: SSLUnavailable:

pip uninstall python-qpid-proton -y

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y swig cmake build-essential libssl-dev pkg-config

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig
export CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/openssl"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"

pip install "python-qpid-proton>=0.39.0,<0.40.0" --no-binary python-qpid-proton --verbose --no-cache-dir

Async Interface

The client provides an async interface via the rabbitmq_amqp_python_client.asyncio module. The async classes act as facades that:

• Wrap the corresponding synchronous classes
• Execute blocking operations in a thread pool executor using run_in_executor
• Coordinate concurrent access using asyncio.Lock
• Implement proper async context managers (async with) for resource management
• Maintain API compatibility with the synchronous version

Key differences from the synchronous interface:

1. Use AsyncEnvironment instead of Environment
2. All operations must be awaited with await
3. Use async with for resource management (connections, publishers, consumers, management)
4. Consumer signal handling uses asyncio.Event and loop.add_signal_handler

For a complete example showing proper consumer termination and signal handling, refer to:

• examples/getting_started/getting_started_async.py

Additional async examples are available in the examples folder:

• OAuth2: examples/oauth/oAuth2_async.py
• Reconnection: examples/reconnection/reconnection_example_async.py
• Streams: examples/streams/example_with_streams_async.py
• TLS: examples/tls/tls_example_async.py

Thread Safety

The TCP connection is not thread safe. If you want to use the client in a multithreaded environment, you should create a connection per thread.