Simple approach to launching background task in Django

Question

I have a Django website, and one page has a button (or link) that when clicked will launch a somewhat long running task. Obviously I want to launch this task as a background

Answer 1

Just use a thread.

import threading

t = threading.Thread(target=long_process,
                            args=args,
                            kwargs=kwargs)
t.setDaemon(True)
t.start()
return HttpResponse()

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