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The Task Queue Python API

App Engine applications can perform background processing by inserting tasks (modeled as web hooks) into a queue. App Engine will detect the presence of new, ready-to-execute tasks and automatically dispatch them for execution, subject to scheduling criteria.

The Task Queue service is currently released as an experimental feature. This means the API and behavior of the service may change in ways that are not compatible with earlier releases, even for minor releases of the runtime environments. Please try out this feature and let us know what you think! (more info)

This reference describes the Python API for the Task Queue service. It has the following sections:

• Overview
• Reference
  • Task Class
  • Queue Class
  • Functions
  • Exceptions

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