Simultaneous multitasking in Django

Question

I have in my web project a time consuming function. While the function is doing its computations, a web page should be rendered informing the user that the results will be sent by email once the computation is done.

If I put the rendering after the function call, the web page wont be rendered until after the time_consuming_function() had finished and that would make the response senseless.

views.py:

def web_function(request):
    ...
    time_consuming_function()
    return HttpResponse()

Is python threading the only way to go?

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Update

Ended up using cellery, since it seemed better documented than ztaskd

Answer 1

The way to go is to use ztaskd to execute time_consuming_function() .

from django_ztask.decorators import task

@task()
def time_consuming_function()
    ...

views.py:

def web_function(request):
    ...
    time_consuming_function.async()
    return HttpResponse()

Answer 2

我建议您看一下任务计划框架，例如Celery（或仅是简单的Rabbit MQ ）