Question

I know this defeats the whole purpose of using Celery, but is there a function that will block until the result has returned?

So instead of MyTask.delay(some_arg="foo") where I have to go around and fetch the result could I call actual_result = MyTask.dont_delay(some_arg="foo") that will block and just return the result?

Answer 1

AsyncResult.get blocks until task is ready, and returns its result:

http://ask.github.com/celery/reference/celery.result.html#celery.result.AsyncResult.get

result = MyTask.delay(some_arg="foo")
result.get()