django-tasks

import os from django.conf import settings # Minimal Django setup for demonstration if not settings.configured: settings.configure( INSTALLED_APPS=[ 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'tasks' # Ensure 'tasks' is in INSTALLED_APPS ], DATABASES={ 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', 'NAME': ':memory:', } }, TASKS_BACKEND='tasks_db.backends.DatabaseBackend', # Or 'tasks_rq.backends.RQBackend' USE_TZ=True ) # Ensure migrations are run for tasks_db if using it # In a real project, this would be part of `manage.py migrate` import django django.setup() # This part assumes django-tasks-db is installed for the example # and that tasks.backends is configured. # For a true quickstart, you'd run `python manage.py makemigrations tasks_db && python manage.py migrate` from tasks import task @task def greet_user(name): print(f"Hello, {name}!") return f"Greeting for {name} completed." # Enqueue the task for asynchronous execution result = greet_user.delay("World") print(f"Task enqueued with ID: {result.pk}") # To process the task (typically run by a worker process) # For local testing, you might manually run the task # from tasks import run_task # run_task(result.pk) # You can inspect the result object (needs refresh if worker is separate) # result.refresh_from_db() # print(f"Task status: {result.status}") # print(f"Task result: {result.result}")