eventstreams101.md

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Using the MQ Light Python client

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** The MQ Light API is available as part of the Standard plan only.**

To use the API, add a reference to the latest available {{site.data.keyword.mql}} client API for Python as follows:

Add the following reference to your requirements.txt file:

git+git://github.com/mqlight/python-mqlight.git@readthedocs

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And add the following import statement to your source file:

import mqlight

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