Task Engine Framework?

[Tim Chase]

On 12/07/2010 10:56 AM, Nate wrote:
> On Dec 7, 8:32 am, Adam Tauno Williams<awill... at whitemice.org>  wrote:
>>> I'm in the process of developing a task engine / workflow module for
>>> my Python application and I'm wondering if anyone knows of existing
>>> code that could be used or adapted.  Since I know that's far too
>>> generic a question, let me share my goals:
>>> 1) Support long running operations (think backing up millions of
>>> files) where:
>>>     - The operation can be paused (application closed) and the
>>> operation resumed later.
>>>     - Individual tasks can be chained, run in parallel, or looped over
>>> (the workflow part)
>>
>> We have something like that in OIE (OpenGroupware Integration Engine).
>> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/coils/>.
>
> I'll take a look at the project.  At the very least, seeing someone
> else's solution would be helpful.  I'm trying desperately hard to keep
> the code simple :-)

You might also want to look at Celery[1] which may do some (if 
not all) of what you're looking for.

-tkc

[1]
http://celeryproject.org