How to get messages receive count in Amazon SQS using boto library in Python?

Question

I am using boto library in Python to get Amazon SQS messages. In exceptional cases I don\'t delete messages from queue in order to give a couple of more changes to recover tempo

Answer 1

It should be done in few steps.

1. create SQS connection :- sqsconnrec = SQSConnection(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
2. create queue object :- request_q = sqsconnrec.create_queue("queue_Name")
3. load the queue messages :- messages= request_q.get_messages()
4. now you get the array of message objects and to find the total number of messages :- just do len(messages)

should work like charm.