Celery worker ImportError: No module named 'pr

Question

While I tried to start the worker I got a issue:
ImportError: No module named 'project'

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/bin/celery", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/celery/__main__.py", line 16, in main
    _main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 322, in main
    cmd.execute_from_commandline(argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 496, in execute_from_commandline
    super(CeleryCommand, self).execute_from_commandline(argv)))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/celery/bin/base.py", line 273, in execute_from_commandline
    argv = self.setup_app_from_commandline(argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/celery/bin/base.py", line 479, in setup_app_from_commandline
    self.app = self.find_app(app)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/celery/bin/base.py", line 501, in find_app
    return find_app(app, symbol_by_name=self.symbol_by_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/celery/app/utils.py", line 359, in find_app
    sym = symbol_by_name(app, imp=imp)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/celery/bin/base.py", line 504, in symbol_by_name
    return imports.symbol_by_name(name, imp=imp)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/kombu/utils/imports.py", line 56, in symbol_by_name
    module = imp(module_name, package=package, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/celery/utils/imports.py", line 104, in import_from_cwd
    return imp(module, package=package)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 956, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ImportError: No module named 'project'

I'm using a celery and redis in ubuntu16.04 .Following are my processing steps:

First install celery and redis:

pip install -U celery[redis] 

sudo apt-get install redis-server

When I use:

ps aux|grep redis

I can see that redis is listing port 6379

Second in the project.setting add:

#Broker 
BROKER_URL = 'redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0'
BROKER_TRANSPORT = 'redis' 

Third build celery.py under project folder,project.setting is also in this folder:

from __future__ import absolute_import
import os
import django
from celery import Celery
from django.conf import settings

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'project.settings')
django.setup()
app = Celery('project')
app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
app.autodiscover_tasks(lambda: settings.INSTALLED_APPS)

Forth build tasks.py under app that will use it

from project.celery import app


from random import Random
from django.core.mail import send_mail

from users.models import EmailVerifyRecord
from project.settings import EMAIL_FROM


@app.task
def random_str(randomlength=8):
    str = ''
    chars = 'AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz0123456789'
    length = len(chars) - 1
    random = Random()
    for i in range(randomlength):
        str += chars[random.randint(0, length)]
    return str

After all those steps, at the same path of celery.py I run:

celery -A project worker -l debug

And then I got the issue.

Any friend can help?

Thank you so much!

Answer 1

It's just because you're not at your root project

navigate toward your root project, the same directory as manage.py

cd path/to/project

and run the command again.

celery -A project worker -l debug