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+import redis
+import time
+import os
+import sys
+import getopt
+import signal
+from ivy.std_api import *
+import logging
+import re
+
+DEFAULT_SERVER = 'localhost'
+DEFAULT_PORT = 6379
+
+server = None
+
+class IvyMessagesInterface():
+    def __init__(self, callback, initIvy = True):
+        self.callback = callback
+        self.ivy_id = 0
+        self.InitIvy(initIvy)
+
+    def Stop(self):
+        IvyUnBindMsg(self.ivy_id)
+
+    def Shutdown(self):
+        self.Stop()
+        IvyStop()
+
+    def __init__del__(self):
+        try:
+            IvyUnBindMsg(self.ivy_id)
+        except:
+            pass
+
+    def InitIvy(self, initIvy):
+        if initIvy:
+            IvyInit("Messages %i" % os.getpid(), "READY", 0, lambda x,y: y, lambda x,y: y)
+            logging.getLogger('Ivy').setLevel(logging.WARN)
+            IvyStart("")
+        self.ivy_id = IvyBindMsg(self.OnIvyMsg, "(.*)")
+
+    def OnIvyMsg(self, agent, *larg):
+        """ Split ivy message up into the separate parts
+        Basically parts/args in string are separated by space, but char array can also contain a space:
+        |f,o,o, ,b,a,r| in old format or "foo bar" in new format
+        """
+        # first split on array delimiters
+        l = re.split('([|\"][^|]*[|\"])', larg[0])
+        # strip spaces and filter out emtpy strings
+        l = [str.strip(s) for s in l if str.strip(s) is not '']
+        data = []
+        for s in l:
+            # split non-array strings further up
+            if '|' not in s and '"' not in s:
+                data += s.split(' ')
+            else:
+                data.append(s)
+        try:
+            ac_id = data[0]
+            name = data[1]
+            values = list(filter(None, data[2:]))
+            self.callback(ac_id, name, values)
+        except IndexError as ie:
+            logging.error( "Index error on this line: %s"%( l ) )
+
+class Ivy2RedisServer():
+    def __init__( self, redishost, redisport ):
+        self.interface = IvyMessagesInterface( self.message_recv )
+        self.r = redis.StrictRedis(host=redishost, port=redisport, db=0)
+        self.keep_running = True
+
+    def message_recv(self, ac_id, name, values):
+        key = ac_id + "." + name
+        self.r.publish( key, values )
+        self.r.set( key, values )
+
+    def run( self ):
+        while( self.keep_running ):
+            time.sleep( 0.1 )
+
+    def stop( self ):
+        self.keep_running = False
+        self.interface.Shutdown()
+
+def Usage(scmd):
+    lpathitem = scmd.split('/')
+    fmt = '''Usage: %s [-h | --help] [-s redisserver] [-p redisport]
+\t-h | --help print this message
+\t-s hostname | --server=redisserver the hostname where redis runs
+\t-p PORT | --port=PORT where PORT is the number of the port used by redis
+'''
+    print fmt   %  lpathitem[-1]
+
+def GetOptions():
+    options = {'server':DEFAULT_SERVER, 'port':DEFAULT_PORT}
+    try:
+        optlist, left_args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:],'h:s:p:', ['help', 'server=', 'port='])
+    except getopt.GetoptError:
+        # print help information and exit:
+        Usage(sys.argv[0])
+        sys.exit(2)
+
+    for o, a in optlist:
+        if o in ("-h", "--help"):
+            Usage(sys.argv[0])
+            sys.exit()
+        elif o in ("-s", "--server"):
+            options['server'] = [ int(a) ]
+        elif o in ("-p", "--port"):
+            options['port'] = a
+    return options
+
+def signal_handler(signal, frame):
+    global server
+    server.stop()
+
+def main():
+    global server
+    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)
+    options = GetOptions()
+    server = Ivy2RedisServer( options['server'], options['port'] )
+    server.run()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()