How to retrieve attributes of message written to a SQS queue using Boto?

[Sreedath Namangalam]

I have the following code snippet. conn = boto.sqs.connect_to_region(region) q = conn.lookup('myqueue') m = Message() m.set_body('My Message') data = {"UserID": {"data_type": "Number","string_value": "11111"}} m.message_attributes = user_data q.write(m) Using this, I have successfully written the attributes I wanted with the message. Now, I wanted to retrieve it. I have tried msg.message_attributes But I have got an empty dictionary only. Is this the way to retrieve it? Or am I wrong somewhere?

[Sreedath Namangalam]

I have got the answer to my question. For this you must have retrieved the message like this attributes = ['UserID'] msgs = q.get_messages(message_attributes=attributes) Will get msgs as a list. And let msg be msgs[0] Then the message attribute can be retrieved by the following code. msg.message_attributes['UserID']['string_value']