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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+# 
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+"""
+A simple python representation for AMQP content.
+"""
+
+def default(val, defval):
+  if val == None:
+    return defval
+  else:
+    return val
+
+class Content:
+
+  def __init__(self, body = "", children = None, properties = None):
+    self.body = body
+    self.children = default(children, [])
+    self.properties = default(properties, {})
+
+  def size(self):
+    return len(self.body)
+
+  def weight(self):
+    return len(self.children)
+
+  def __getitem__(self, name):
+    return self.properties[name]
+
+  def __setitem__(self, name, value):
+    self.properties[name] = value
+
+  def __delitem__(self, name):
+    del self.properties[name]
+
+  def __str__(self):
+    if self.children:
+      return "%s [%s] %s" % (self.properties,
+                             ", ".join(map(str, self.children)),
+                             self.body)
+    else:
+      return "%s %s" % (self.properties, self.body)