Alligator

Simple offline task queues. For Python.

“See you later, alligator.”

Guide

• Installing Alligator
  • Queue Backends
• Alligator Tutorial
  • Philosophy
  • Figure Out What To Offline
  • Creating a Task
  • Create a Gator Instance
  • Put the Task on the Queue
  • Running a Worker
  • Working Around Failsome Tasks
  • Delaying/Scheduling Tasks
  • Testing Tasks
  • Going Beyond
• Best Practices
  • Configure One Gator
  • Use Environment Variables or Settings for the Gator DSN
  • Use an Alternate Queue for Testing
  • Use Environment Variables or Settings for Task.is_async
  • Simple Task Parameters
  • Re-use the Gator.options Context Manager
• Extending Alligator
  • Hook Methods
  • Custom Task Classes
  • Multiple Queues
  • Custom Backend Clients
  • Different Workers
• Migration to 1.0 Guide
  • Switch to Python 3
  • Dropped Beanstalk Support
  • Update References from Task.async to Task.is_async
  • Redis Backend: Recreate Queues
  • Custom Backends: Add delay_until Support
• Contributing
  • Philosophy
  • Guidelines For Reporting An Issue/Feature
  • Guidelines For Contributing Code
• Security

API Reference

• alligator.constants
  • Task Constants
  • Queue Constants
• alligator.exceptions
• alligator.gator
• alligator.tasks
• alligator.utils
• alligator.workers

Release Notes

• alligator 1.0.0
• alligator 1.0.0-beta-2
• alligator 1.0.0-beta-1
• alligator 1.0.0-alpha-3
• alligator 1.0.0-alpha-2
• alligator 1.0.0-alpha-1
• alligator 0.10.0
• alligator 0.9.0
• alligator 0.8.0
• alligator 0.7.1
• alligator 0.7.0
• alligator 0.6.0
• alligator 0.5.1
• alligator 0.5.0

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page