celery error :'module' object has no attribute 'celery' - django

Question

I try to start celery using command below:
celery -A converter worker --loglevel=info
but it doesn't work.
my converter.py is:
from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
from celery.task import task
#task
def ffmpeg_convert(input_file, bitrate):
#do something
and my celery.py:
from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
import os
from celery import Celery
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'settings.base')
app = Celery('converter')
app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings', namespace='CELERY')
app.conf.broker_url = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'
app.autodiscover_tasks()
#app.task(bind=True)
def debug_task(self):
print('Request: {0!r}'.format(self.request))
but I get following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/celery", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/__main__.py", line 14, in main
_main()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 326, in main
cmd.execute_from_commandline(argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 488, in execute_from_commandline
super(CeleryCommand, self).execute_from_commandline(argv)))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/base.py", line 279, in execute_from_commandline
argv = self.setup_app_from_commandline(argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/base.py", line 481, in setup_app_from_commandline
self.app = self.find_app(app)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/base.py", line 503, in find_app
return find_app(app, symbol_by_name=self.symbol_by_name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/app/utils.py", line 366, in find_app
found = sym.celery
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'celery'
Do anyone has any idea?Thank for help

Answer 1

I've been experiencing a similar problem and I think the issue might be from where you're running celery -A proj worker --loglevel=info.
If you have a project structure like
directory
--virtualenv/
--proj/
----manage.py
----requirements.txt
----proj/
------settings.py
------celery.py
You need to run the command from --proj/

Answer 2

Looks like your celery.py file shadows the celery package.