This document describes the current stable version of Celery (5.6). For development docs, go here.

# Source code for celery.loaders

    """Get loader by name.

    Loaders define how configuration is read, what happens
    when workers start, when tasks are executed and so on.
    """
    from celery.utils.imports import import_from_cwd, symbol_by_name

    __all__ = ('get_loader_cls',)

    LOADER_ALIASES = {
        'app': 'celery.loaders.app:AppLoader',
        'default': 'celery.loaders.default:Loader',
    }

    def get_loader_cls(loader):
        """Get loader class by name/alias."""
        return symbol_by_name(loader, LOADER_ALIASES, imp=import_from_cwd)