All of the examples in this section use the same code to initialize the program, create a session, and clean up before exiting. They also use the same include files. The following skeleton can be used as the basis to write a wide variety of MRG Messaging applications in Python.

import qpid
import sys
import os
from qpid.util import connect
from qpid.connection import Connection
from qpid.datatypes import Message, RangedSet, uuid4
from qpid.queue import Empty

# additional imports for a given example go here

#----- Functions and Classes ----------------------------

# Any functions and classes needed for a given example 
# go here.

#----- Initialization -----------------------------------

#  Set parameters for login

host="127.0.0.1"
port=5672
user="guest"
password="guest"

# Create a connection and a session. The constructor for a session
# requires a UUID to uniquely identify the session.

socket = connect(host, port)
connection = Connection (sock=socket)
connection.start()
session = connection.session(str(uuid4()))

#----- Main Body of Program --------------------------------

#   Main body of each example goes here

#----- Cleanup ---------------------------------------------

# Close the session before exiting so there are no open threads.
session.close(timeout=10)