Private tasks

Private tasks are tasks that are not meant to be run directly. You can define private tasks by prefixing the task name with an underscore.

from quickie import task

@task
def _private_task():
    print("Private task")

Same with classes:

from quickie import Task

class _PrivateTask(Task):
    def run(self):
        print("Private task")

Sometimes however, we don’t want to prefix the task name with an underscore, i.e. when we want to use the task as a base class for other tasks. We can also make tasks private by setting private=True in the class definition.

from quickie import Task

class BaseTask(Task, private=True):
    pass

Warning

The privacy of a task is not inherited. This means that if you subclass a private task, the subclass will not be private. This allows to easily inherit from private tasks without having to explicitly set private=False.