django-background-task not functioning all for me.

my django-background-task does nothing, even if I just ask it to do something simple like printing a string.
I dont know what I am doing wrong though.

views.py:

from django.http import HttpResponse from django.shortcuts import render, redirect from django.contrib import messages from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required from django.contrib.auth.forms import PasswordChangeForm from django.contrib.auth import update_session_auth_hash from .forms import UserRegistrationForm from .models import Player, PlayerStats, TotalLevels from django.core import management from background_task import background import random # background task @background(schedule=5) def play_run(): print('it works!') # management.call_command('runscript', 'runnerscript') def random_logo(): logo = random.randint(1, 5) logo_file = 'logo-nav'+str(logo)+'.png' return logo_file # Main website views def home(request): return render(request, template_name='main/home.html') # bloxors website specific views def homepage(request): logo_file = random_logo() return render(request, template_name='bloxors/homepage.html', context={'logo':logo_file}) # view in which background task is called @login_required def play_redirect(request): play_run() return HttpResponse('Please wait while we redirect you...') 

Can someone help me by telling what is going wrong?

As always, I appreciate any and all answers!

I’m afraid I’m not super familiar with the library in question - could you link to it so we have a chance to maybe see what’s wrong?

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Hi,
I am also trying to have background-tasks running. Can’t figure how.
Have you found a solution?

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you need to run the tasks explicitly using a command in your terminal / command prompt. The command would be python manage.py process_tasks . For more info checkout the documentation: Django background tasks documentation

Yes thanks, it works!