Celery ------ Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation and supports scheduling as well. The execution units, called tasks, are executed concurrently on a single or more worker servers using multiprocessing. You can install Celery either via the Python Package Index (PyPI) or from source. To install using pip: $ pip install Celery To install using easy_install: $ easy_install Celery Downloading and installing from source -------------------------------------- Download the latest version of Celery from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/celery/ You can install it by doing the following: $ tar xvfz celery-0.0.0.tar.gz $ cd celery-0.0.0 $ python setup.py build # python setup.py install # as root Using the development version ----------------------------- You can clone the repository by doing the following: $ git clone git://github.com/celery/celery.git