Celery 3.1 now supports Django out of the box, please see the new tutorial

Celery Loaders - djcelery.loaders

class djcelery.loaders.DjangoLoader(*args, **kwargs)

The Django loader.

autodiscover()

close_cache()

close_database(**kwargs)

import_default_modules()

mail_admins(subject, body, fail_silently=False, **kwargs)

now(utc=False)

on_process_cleanup()

Does everything necessary for Django to work in a long-living, multiprocessing environment.

on_task_init(task_id, task)

Called before every task.

on_worker_init()

Called when the worker starts.

Automatically discovers any tasks.py files in the applications listed in INSTALLED_APPS.

on_worker_process_init()

override_backends = {'cache': 'djcelery.backends.cache.CacheBackend', 'database': 'djcelery.backends.database.DatabaseBackend'}

read_configuration()

Load configuration from Django settings.

warn_if_debug(**kwargs)

djcelery.loaders.autodiscover()

Include tasks for all applications in INSTALLED_APPS.

djcelery.loaders.find_related_module(app, related_name)

Given an application name and a module name, tries to find that module in the application.