pymosquitto 0.2.3

A lightweight Python MQTT client implemented as a thin wrapper around libmosquitto

PyMosquitto

A lightweight Python MQTT client implemented as a thin wrapper around libmosquitto.

Dependencies

• python3.8+
• libmosquitto1

Installation

• pip install pymosquitto

TODO

• implement the remaining bindings

Usage

from pymosquitto import Client


def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
    print(msg)


client = Client()
client.on_connect = lambda *_: client.subscribe("#", 1)
client.on_message = on_message
client.connect_async("localhost", 1883)
client.loop_forever()

Async client example:

import asyncio

from pymosquitto.aio import AsyncClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncClient() as client:
        await client.connect("localhost", 1883)
        await client.subscribe("#", 1)
        async for msg in client.read_messages():
            print(msg)


asyncio.run(main())

Check out more examples in tests/test_client.py.

Benchmarks

Receiving 1 million messages with QoS 0.

*The memory plots exclude the Python interpreter overhead (~10.2 MB).

Losers excluded:

benchmark.csv

Module;Time;RSS
pymosq;0:04.23;18552
pymosq_async;0:09.39;25004
paho;0:08.84;23544
gmqtt;0:03.97;24780
mqttools;0:06.49;27944
aiomqtt;0:53.48;578296
amqtt;1:02.94;756716

License

MIT