import error in celery

Question

this is the code which i am running:

from __future__ import absolute_import
from celery import Celery
celery1 = Celery(\'celery\',broker=\'amqp://\',backend=\'am         


        

Answer 1

I had this issue together with pycharm and unittests, and want to add an additional answer. I have tested it with python 3 but assume the same happens if you use from __future__ import absolute_import with earlier versions.

The root cause is described in the pycharm bug report https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-15889

Summary: If you run unittests in pycharm, it always adds the folder containing the test script to the beginning of sys.path. If your celery.py is in the same path, python will try to load it first.

Instead of changing file names I have resolved this by removing this folder from sys.path before importing celery.py in my ..._Test.py test scripts.

# If running in pycharm, pycharm always adds the current path to the beginning (!) of sys.path
# I have not found a setting to fix this - so I just remove the path again
# This block can be removed once https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-15889 if fixed
import sys
import os
sys.path.remove(os.path.dirname(__file__)) 

import celery