trivial tool for delete AMQP queues, as Debian squeeze doesn't seem to have my favourite one

amqp-delete-queue.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import pika
import sys
from optparse import OptionParser

def run():
    p = OptionParser()
    p.add_option("--hostname", dest="hostname",
        default="localhost", help="Hostname of AMQP endpoint")

    options, args = p.parse_args()
    if len(args) != 1:
        p.error("You must specify the queue")

    queue = args[0]
    connection = pika.BlockingConnection(
        pika.ConnectionParameters(host=options.hostname))
    channel = connection.channel()
    channel.queue_delete(queue=queue)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    run()