I decided to implement the current queue service specification in Python this weekend as it is described on the wiki page. It is functionally complete minus persistent queues and account verification (plugin points for the real implementation). You can find the links and description here (as well as more specification changes, examples, and diagrams): http://wiki.openstack.org/QueueService For a direct link, grab: bzr branch lp:~eday/+junk/osq or http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~eday/+junk/osq/view/head:/osq.py The top of the file has some example usage. To run the test suite, just run nosetests or: ./osq.py test Any feedback would be very much appreciated! -Eric