When using the “receive_message” Python Boto function to pull message(s) from a SQS queue, you will always get a response back when the command completes. However, how do you determine if the response you got back actually contains a valid message?
Quick trick:
response = sqs.receive_message
if 'Messages' in response:
print("Message on the queue to process")
else:
print("No messages on the queue to process")
Thats about it!!
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