ImportError: No module named mosquitto

Question

I have installed mosquitto on Ubuntu 15.10 using the following command

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa
sudo apt-get update

To check if Mosquitto is installed i type mosquitto and it shows all the details as follows:

1458716686: mosquitto version 1.4.8 (build date Sun, 14 Feb 2016 15:48:26 +0000) starting
1458716686: Using default config.
1458716686: Opening ipv4 listen socket on port 1883.
1458716686: Opening ipv6 listen socket on port 1883.

Which implies mosquitto is working right?

So i proceed with my program written in python. (Pyton version 2.7)

import mosquitto
mqttc = mosquitto.Mosquitto("python_pub")
mqttc.will_set("/event/dropped", "Sorry, I seem to have died.")
mqttc.connect("127.0.0.1", 1883, 60, True)
mqttc.publish("hello/world", "Hello, World!")

On running the above program i get this error

ImportError: No module named mosquitto

I am new to the whole mqtt concept. Please let me know where i went wrong

Answer 1

The mosquitto python module is no longer part of the Eclipse Mosquitto project, it has moved to the Eclipse Paho project instead.

You can install it with pip install paho-mqtt or pip3 install paho-mqtt.

You could then do:

import paho.mqtt as paho
mqttc = paho.Client()
...

The remainder of the API is largely the same, it has just been expanded and improved.

Answer 2

http://www.eclipse.org/paho/clients/python/ says:

import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
client = mqtt.Client()

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