huey, a little task queue

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a lightweight alternative.

  • written in python

  • no deps outside the standard lib, except Redis (or you can roll your own backend)

  • support for Django

supports:

  • multi-threaded task execution

  • scheduled execution at a given time

  • periodic execution, like a crontab

  • retrying tasks that fail

  • task result storage

Huey’s API

from huey import RedisHuey, crontab

huey = RedisHuey('my-app', host='redis.myapp.com')

@huey.task()
def add_numbers(a, b):
    return a + b

@huey.periodic_task(crontab(minute='0', hour='3'))
def nightly_backup():
    sync_all_data()

named after my cat:

http://media.charlesleifer.com/blog/photos/thumbnails/IMG_20130402_154858_650x650.jpg

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