Using RabbitMQ is there a way to look at the queue contents without a dequeue operation?

Question

As a way to learn RabbitMQ and python I\'m working on a project that allows me to distribute h264 encodes between a number of computers. The basics are done, I have a daemo

Answer 1

@MichaelDillon based on your answer to make others life easier I am putting here a no_ack example:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import pika

connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(host='localhost'))
channel = connection.channel()

channel.queue_declare(queue='Q.hello')


def callback(ch, method, properties, body):
    print(" [x] Received %r" % body)
    # ch.basic_ack(delivery_tag=method.delivery_tag)

channel.basic_consume(callback, queue='Q.hello')

print(' [*] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C')
channel.start_consuming()