from kombu.pools import producers from .queues import task_exchange priority_to_routing_key = { 'high': 'hipri', 'mid': 'midpri', 'low': 'lopri', } def send_as_task(connection, fun, args=(), kwargs={}, priority='mid'): payload = {'fun': fun, 'args': args, 'kwargs': kwargs} routing_key = priority_to_routing_key[priority] with producers[connection].acquire(block=True) as producer: producer.publish(payload, serializer='pickle', compression='bzip2', exchange=task_exchange, declare=[task_exchange], routing_key=routing_key) if __name__ == '__main__': from kombu import Connection from .tasks import hello_task connection = Connection('amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672//') send_as_task(connection, fun=hello_task, args=('Kombu',), kwargs={}, priority='high')