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- celery - Distributed Task Queue for Django/Python
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+ celery - Distributed Task Queue
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:Version: 0.7.0
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Introduction
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-**NOTE:** See the FAQ for information about using celery outside of Django.
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+Celery is a distributed task queue. It was first created for Django, but
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+is now usable from Python. It can also operate with other languages
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+via HTTP+JSON. This introduction is written for someone who wants to use
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+Celery from within a Django project. For information about using it from
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+pure Python see `Can I use Celery without Django?`_, for calling out to other
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+languages see `Executing tasks on a remote web server`_.
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-``celery`` is a distributed task queue framework for Django/Python.
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+.. _`Can I use Celery without Django`: http://bit.ly/WPa6n
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+.. _`Executing tasks on a remote web server`: http://bit.ly/CgXSc
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It is used for executing tasks *asynchronously*, routed to one or more
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worker servers, running concurrently using multiprocessing.
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