[LINUX] Handle posix message queues in python

$ sudo pip install posix_ipc

#!/usr/local/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import json
import posix_ipc
import time

if __name__ == "__main__":
    posix_ipc.unlink_message_queue("/queue_name")

    mq = posix_ipc.MessageQueue("/queue_name", posix_ipc.O_CREX)
    counter = 0
    while True:
        counter += 1

        #Enqueue with send, str,Send unicode
        mq.send(json.dumps({"loop_count": counter}))
        print "queue: %d" % counter
        time.sleep(1.0)

    posix_ipc.unlink_message_queue("/queue_name")

#!/usr/local/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import json
import posix_ipc
import time

if __name__ == "__main__":
    mq = posix_ipc.MessageQueue("/queue_name")
    while True:
        msg = mq.receive()
        print json.loads(msg[0])
        time.sleep(0.5)

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