a lightweight alternative.

• written in python
• no deps outside the standard lib, except Redis (or you can roll your own backend)
• support for Django

supports:

• multi-threaded task execution
• scheduled execution at a given time
• periodic execution, like a crontab
• retrying tasks that fail
• task result storage

from huey import RedisHuey, crontab

huey = RedisHuey('my-app', host='redis.myapp.com')

@huey.task()
def add_numbers(a, b):
    return a + b

@huey.periodic_task(crontab(minute='0', hour='3'))
def nightly_backup():
    sync_all_data()

See Huey documentation.

See source code and issue tracker on Github.

named after my cat: