Running celery worker from inside the project

Question

I have an application which has the follow structure:

proj/
    __init__.py
    script1.py
    script2.py
    celery.py
    ...

The problem is that the project was initially written with the root directory inside the proj. Ie import don't start with import proj.script1 but are import script1 . Now, if I try to start the worker from the directory above proj , it obviously messes things up. I tried adding sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) in celery.py with hopes to add the correct directory to the path but it still doesn't work.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

So the workaround for me was to put celery.py inside another directory and then run worker while being in proj/ .

Current directory structure:

proj/
    __init__.py
    script1.py
    script2.py
    Celery/
        celery.py
    ...

Not very beautiful but works.