Multi-threading a process within a view function

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In views, I have a process that takes a few seconds to compute. As it stands, this process comes before my view function returns a next webpage. However, it is not crucial that this process runs before, and in fact it can run anytime. Therefore, I am wondering if it is possible to run this process, and then return the next webpage before the process has finished. I suppose this would be considered multi-threading.

For example:

def myViewFunction(request):
    myProcess() # This takes a while to finish
    return render(request, 'myapp/mywebpage.html')

Can I run myProcess() in the background, and return render() as soon as myProcess() has been called, rather than wait until it has returned?

yea just use a normal thread.. – user2717954 Oct 26 '14 at 06:55 — user2717954, Oct 26 '14 at 06:55

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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What you are looking for is Celery. See this answer for an example of using Celery inside Django.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered Oct 26 '14 at 09:15

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