How to check task status in Celery?

Question

How does one check whether a task is running in celery (specifically, I\'m using celery-django)?

I\'ve read the documentation, and I\'ve googled, but I can\'t see a

Answer 1

Every Task object has a .request property, which contains it AsyncRequest object. Accordingly, the following line gives the state of a Task task:

task.AsyncResult(task.request.id).state