beanstalkc¶

beanstalkc is a simple beanstalkd client library for Python. beanstalkd is a simple, fast work queue service.

beanstalkc depends on PyYAML, but there are ways to avoid this dependency. See Appendix A of the tutorial for details.

beanstalkc is pure Python, and is compatible with eventlet and gevent.

Contents¶

Usage¶

Here is a short example, to illustrate the flavour of beanstalkc:

>>> import beanstalkc
>>> beanstalk = beanstalkc.Connection(host='localhost', port=11300)
>>> beanstalk.put('hey!')
1
>>> job = beanstalk.reserve()
>>> job.body
'hey!'
>>> job.delete()

License¶

Copyright 2008-2011 Andreas Bolka

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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