Celery 'Getting Started' not able to retrieve results; always pending

Question

I\'ve been trying to follow the Celery First Steps With Celery and Next Steps guides. My setup is Windows 7 64-bit, Anaconda Python 2.7 (32-bit), Installed Erlang 32-bit bi

Answer 1

.delay methods puts your task in queue. "result.state" is showing pending, which means your task in not yet executed. There might be a lot tasks, so its getting delayed.

Check if there are any tasks running

>>> from celery.task.control import inspect
>>> i = inspect()
>>> i.scheduled()
>>> i.active()