The Python Celery Cookbook: Small Tool, Big Possibilities

primary_celery_example.py

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import send_mail
from django.template import Engine, Context

from myproject.celery import app


def render_template(template, context):
    engine = Engine.get_default()

    tmpl = engine.get_template(template)

    return tmpl.render(Context(context))
    

@app.task
def send_mail_task(recipients, subject, template, context):
    send_mail(
        subject=subject,
        message=render_template(f'{template}.txt', context),
        from_email=settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL,
        recipient_list=recipients,
        fail_silently=False,
        html_message=render_template(f'{template}.html', context)
    )

Hi there, thanks for this tutorial!

I think Line 5 should be switched to from myproject import celery_app on the premise that from .celery import app as celery_app is included in myproject/__init__.py as instructed here.

Otherwise all references to @celery_app.task should probably be refactored to @app.task.

only if you have such import in your my-project/__init__.py but it's not necessary, even better to do not have any code in __init__.py files at all

That is correct. The point I was trying to make is that the decorator celery_app in line 16 is not defined in this example.

You are right, fixed, thank you