celery — Easy Examples

Distributed task queue for async job processing

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Getting started with celery

Installation and basic usage of celery.

python
# Install: pip install celery[redis]
from celery import Celery

app = Celery("tasks", broker="redis://localhost:6379")

@app.task
def add(x, y):
    return x + y

# Usage:
# result = add.delay(4, 4)
# print(result.get())
Expected Output
# Expected output shown below
# (Run locally with: celery)

celery is a third-party package. Distributed task queue for async job processing. Install with: pip install celery[redis]

Common celery operations

Frequently used features of celery.

python
# Install: pip install celery[redis]
import celery

# Common celery patterns
print(f"celery version: {celery.__version__}")

These are the most commonly used features of celery in everyday development.

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