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Learning Flask Framework
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Learning Flask Framework

by Matt Copperwaite, Charles Leifer
November 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
250 pages
5h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Asynchronous tasks with Celery

Celery is a library that allows you to run asynchronous tasks within Python. This is especially helpful in Python as Python runs single threaded and you may find that you have a long-running task that you wish to either start and discard; or you may wish to give the user of your website some feedback on the progress of the said task.

One such example is e-mail. A user may request an e-mail to be sent, for example a password reset request, and you don't want them waiting for the page to load while the e-mail is generated and sent. We can set this up as a start and discard operation and let the user know that the request is being dealt with.

The way Celery is able to escape the single-threaded environment of Python is ...

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