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Notes on Python and beanstalkd on Ubuntu Karmic

Date: April 28, 2010 | Tags: concurrency, notestoself, python

Beanstalk

Install and run beanstalkd

Install dependencies (libevent 1.4.1+)

$ sudo apt-get update 
$ sudo apt-get install libevent-1.4-2 libevent-dev

Download and unpack beanstalkd

$ curl http://xph.us/dist/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.4.4.tar.gz | tar zx

Build

$ cd beanstalkd-1.4.4 
$ ./configure 
$ make

Run the beanstalkd server

$ ./beanstalkd -d -l 127.0.0.5 -p 11300

Install the Python client library

Install pip

Install PyYAML (beanstalkc dependency)

$ sudo apt-get build-dep python-yaml 
$ sudo pip install PyYAML

Install beanstalkc
```
$ sudo pip install beanstalkc 
```

Example

Reference: beanstalkc TUTORIAL

import beanstalkc

# connect to server
bean = beanstalkc.Connection(host='127.0.0.5', port=11300)

# put jobs in queue
for i in range(5):
    print 'Put data: %d' % i
    bean.put(str(i))

# get jobs from queue
while True:
    job = bean.reserve()
    print 'Got data: %s' % job.body
    job.delete()

Results:

Put data: 0
Put data: 1
Put data: 2
Put data: 3
Put data: 4
Got data: 0
Got data: 1
Got data: 2
Got data: 3
Got data: 4

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