Publishing messages to a Mosquitto broker with a Python client

We have the code that is going to be running in the Intel Galileo Gen 2 board to process the command messages received from the Mosquitto message broker. Now, we are going to code a Python client that will publish messages to the "iot-python-gaston-hillar/temperature" channel. This way, we will be able to design applications that can talk to IoT devices with MQTT messages. Specifically, the applications will be able to communicate through a Mosquitto message broker with Python code in the publisher and in the subscriber devices.

We can run the Python client on another Intel Galileo Gen 2 board or in any device that has Python 2.7.x installed. In addition, the code will run with Python ...

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