README.md

0. Install rq: pip install rq
1. Run redis docker run -p 6379:6379 redis
2. Run worker rq worker
3. Run submit script python submit.py

More info: https://python-rq.org/docs/

my_module.py

import requests

def count_words_at_url(url):
    resp = requests.get(url)
    return len(resp.text.split())

submit.py

import time

from redis import Redis
from rq import Queue

from my_module import count_words_at_url


if __name__ == '__main__':
    q = Queue(connection=Redis())
    job = q.enqueue(count_words_at_url, 'http://nvie.com')

    while job.result is None:
        print(".", end='')
        time.sleep(1)
    print(job.result)