Is there any way to make an asynchronous function call from Python [Django]?

Question

I am creating a Django application that does various long computations with uploaded files. I don\'t want to make the user wait for the file to be handled - I just want to s

Answer 1

threading will break runserver if I'm not mistaken. I've had good luck with multiprocess in request handlers with mod_wsgi and runserver. Maybe someone can enlighten me as to why this is bad:

def _bulk_action(action, objs):
    # mean ponies here

def bulk_action(request, t):

    ...
    objs = model.objects.filter(pk__in=pks)

    if request.method == 'POST':
        objs.update(is_processing=True)

        from multiprocessing import Process
        p = Process(target=_bulk_action,args=(action,objs))
        p.start()

        return HttpResponseRedirect(next_url)

    context = {'t': t, 'action': action, 'objs': objs, 'model': model}
    return render_to_response(...)

http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html

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