Chapter 3. Getting started

The Hello World example creates a connection to the broker, sends a message containing a greeting to the examples queue, and receives it back. On success, it prints the received message to the console.

Change to the examples directory and run the helloworld.py example.

cd /usr/share/proton/examples/python/
python helloworld.py

$ cd /usr/share/proton/examples/python/
$ python helloworld.py
Hello World!

The Hello World example creates a connection to the broker, sends a message containing a greeting to the examples queue, and receives it back. On success, it prints the received message to the console.

Download and run the Hello World example.

> curl -o helloworld.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/qpid-proton/master/python/examples/helloworld.py
> python helloworld.py
Hello World!

> curl -o helloworld.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/qpid-proton/master/python/examples/helloworld.py
> python helloworld.py
Hello World!