The aim of kombu is to make messaging in python as easy as possible by providing an idiomatic high-level interface for the amqp protocol. it is meant to replace the carrot library by providing a compatibility layer.

features:
* allows application authors to support several message server solutions by
using pluggable transports.
* supports automatic encoding, serialization and compression of message
payloads.
* the ability to ensure that an operation is performed by gracefully handling
connection and channel errors.