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celery — Distributed processing

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This module is the main entry-point for the Celery API. It includes commonly needed things for calling tasks, and creating Celery applications.

Celery	Celery application instance
group	group tasks together
chain	chain tasks together
chord	chords enable callbacks for groups
signature()	create a new task signature
Signature	object describing a task invocation
current_app	proxy to the current application instance
current_task	proxy to the currently executing task

Celery application objects

New in version 2.5.

Canvas primitives

See Canvas: Designing Work-flows for more about creating task work-flows.

Proxies

celery.current_app

The currently set app for this thread.

celery.current_task

The task currently being executed (only set in the worker, or when eager/apply is used).