Introduction to Pika
====================
Pika is a pure-Python implementation of the AMQP 0-9-1 protocol that tries to stay fairly independent of the underlying network support library.

If you have not developed with Pika or RabbitMQ before, the :doc:`intro` documentation is a good place to get started.

Installing Pika
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Pika is available for download via PyPI and may be installed using easy_install or pip::

    pip install pika

or::

    easy_install pika

To install from source, run "python setup.py install" in the root source directory.

Using Pika
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.. toctree::
   :glob:
   :maxdepth: 1

   intro
   modules/index
   examples
   faq
   contributors

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`
