Django Celery Error - django

Question

I'm been trying to schedule a task for celery to do at the background but I keep encountering issues.
Quick reference on what I've done so far
I installed celery and django-celery via easy_install, added to INSTALLED_APPS:
'djcelery',
'kombu.transport.django',
imported the following and ran syncdb:
import djcelery
djcelery.setup_loader()
BROKER_URL = "django://"
The task I'm trying to run in the background is password reset. So when a user forget his password , I want to make the sending email task run in the background so what I done is
I moved my forgot_password function from views.py into tasks.py so it can run.
My tasks.py:
from django.contrib.auth.views import password_reset
from django.shortcuts import render
from celery.decorators import task
#task()
def forgot_password(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
return password_reset(request,
from_email=request.POST.get('email'))
else:
return render(request, 'forgot_password.html')
Their nothing in views.py now.
The problem is even though, I can send email if I lose my password. I'm not sure if it's running in the background. What I did to check is was:
manage.py celery worker --loglevel=info
but I get an error: KeyError: 'processName':
C:\o\17\mysite>manage.py celery worker --loglevel=info
-------------- celery#gg-PC v3.0.19 (Chiastic Slide)
---- **** -----
--- * *** * -- Windows-Vista-6.0.6001-SP1
-- * - **** ---
- ** ---------- [config]
- ** ---------- .> broker: django://localhost//
- ** ---------- .> app: default:0x319c930 (djcelery.loaders.DjangoLoader
)
- ** ---------- .> concurrency: 2 (processes)
- *** --- * --- .> events: OFF (enable -E to monitor this worker)
-- ******* ----
--- ***** ----- [queues]
-------------- .> celery: exchange:celery(direct) binding:celery
[Tasks]
. accounts.tasks.forgot_password
[2013-05-15 17:49:45,279: WARNING/MainProcess] C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\dja
ngo_celery-3.0.17-py2.6.egg\djcelery\loaders.py:133: UserWarning: Using settings
.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never use this setting in production environments
!
warnings.warn('Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never '
[2013-05-15 17:49:45,292: WARNING/MainProcess] celery#gg-PC ready.
[2013-05-15 17:49:45,292: INFO/MainProcess] consumer: Connected to django://loca
lhost//.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python26\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 754, in emit
msg = self.format(record)
File "C:\Python26\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 637, in format
return fmt.format(record)
File "C:\Python26\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 428, in format
s = self._fmt % record.__dict__
KeyError: 'processName'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python26\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 754, in emit
msg = self.format(record)
File "C:\Python26\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 637, in format
return fmt.format(record)
File "C:\Python26\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 428, in format
s = self._fmt % record.__dict__
KeyError: 'processName'
Can someone please kindly help me by tell me if forget password is configured probably to send emails in the background and why do I get this error KeyError: 'processName'?

Answer 1

First of all there is a simple way of sending emails using celery:
django-celery-email
Second, your task is wrong. Task is a background job, not view. It should perform the final operation. In your case this is sending email