Working with bi-directional communications

We can easily add a few lines of code to publish a message to the same channel in which we are receiving messages to indicate that the command has been successfully processed. We will use our previous example as a baseline and we will create a new version of the MessageChannel class. The code file was iot_python_chapter_09_02.py. Don't forget to replace the strings assigned to the publish_key and subscribe_key local variables in the __init__ method with the values you have retrieved from the previously explained PubNub key generation process. The following lines show the new version of the MessageChannel class that publishes a message after a command has been successfully processed. The code file for the sample is iot_python_chapter_09_03.py.

import time
from pubnub import Pubnub

class MessageChannel:
    command_key = "command"
    successfully_processed_command_key = "successfully_processed_command"

    def __init__(self, channel, temperature_servo...