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+"""
+Example of simple consumer that waits for a single message, acknowledges it
+and exits.
+"""
+
+from kombu import BrokerConnection, Exchange, Queue, Consumer
+from pprint import pformat
+
+#: By default messages sent to exchanges are persistent (delivery_mode=2),
+#: and queues and exchanges are durable.
+exchange = Exchange("kombu_demo", type="direct")
+queue = Queue("kombu_demo", exchange, routing_key="kombu_demo")
+
+
+def pretty(obj):
+    return pformat(obj, indent=4)
+
+#: This is the callback applied when a message is received.
+def handle_message(body, message):
+    print("Received message: %r" % (body, ))
+    print("  properties:\n%s" % (pretty(message.properties), ))
+    print("  delivery_info:\n%s" % (pretty(message.delivery_info), ))
+    message.ack()
+
+#: Create a connection and a channel.
+#: If hostname, userid, password and virtual_host is not specified
+#: the values below are the default, but listed here so it can
+#: be easily changed.
+connection = BrokerConnection(hostname="localhost",
+                              userid="guest",
+                              password="guest",
+                              virtual_host="/")
+channel = connection.channel()
+
+#: Create consumer using our callback and queue.
+#: Second argument can also be a list to consume from
+#: any number of queues.
+consumer = Consumer(channel, queue, callbacks=[handle_message])
+consumer.consume()
+
+#: This waits for a single event.  Note that this event may not
+#: be a message, or a message that is to be delivered to the consumers
+#: channel, but any event received on the connection.
+connection.drain_events()
+
+
diff --git a/examples/demo_send.py b/examples/demo_send.py
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+"""
+
+Example producer that sends a single message and exits.
+
+You can use `demo_receive.py` to receive the message sent.
+
+"""
+
+from kombu import BrokerConnection, Exchange, Queue, Producer
+
+#: By default messages sent to exchanges are persistent (delivery_mode=2),
+#: and queues and exchanges are durable.
+exchange = Exchange("kombu_demo", type="direct")
+queue = Queue("kombu_demo", exchange, routing_key="kombu_demo")
+
+
+#: Create connection and channel.
+#: If hostname, userid, password and virtual_host is not specified
+#: the values below are the default, but listed here so it can
+#: be easily changed.
+connection = BrokerConnection(hostname="localhost",
+                              userid="guest",
+                              password="guest",
+                              virtual_host="/")
+channel = connection.channel()
+
+#: Producers are used to publish messages.
+#: Routing keys can also be specifed as an argument to `publish`.
+producer = Producer(channel, exchange, routing_key="kombu_demo")
+
+#: Publish the message using the json serializer (which is the default),
+#: and zlib compression.  The kombu consumer will automatically detect
+#: encoding, serializiation and compression used and decode accordingly.
+producer.publish({"hello": "world"}, serializer="json",
+                                     compression="zlib")