gistfile1.txt

from pika.adapters import BlockingConnection

connection = BlockingConnection()

while True:
    try:
        channel = connection.channel()

        # This should error, RabbitMQ will send a channelClose with the error
        channel.queue_declare(queue='garbage-queuename-that-will-404', passive=True)
    except Exception, e:
        print 'We want 404: ', e
        raw_input('Now run rabbitmqctl list_channels, press enter to error on another channel and watch the channels list grow')