Django Tutorial => Celery Configuration

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CELERY

Installation - pip install django-celery
Add

Basic project structure.

 - src/
   - bin/celery_worker_start # will be explained later on
   - logs/celery_worker.log
   - stack/__init __.py
   - stack/celery.py
   - stack/settings.py
   - stack/urls.py
   - manage.py

Add celery.py file to your stack/stack/ folder.

 from __future__ import absolute_import
 import os
 from celery import Celery
 os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'stack.settings')
 from django.conf import settings  # noqa
 app = Celery('stack')
 app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
 app.autodiscover_tasks(lambda: settings.INSTALLED_APPS)

to your stack/stack/__init__.py add following code:

 from __future__ import absolute_import
 from .celery import app as celery_app  # noqa

Create a task and mark it for example as @shared_task()

 @shared_task()
 def add(x, y):
     print("x*y={}".format(x*y))

Running celery worker "by hand":

celery -A stack worker -l info if you also want to add

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