Django: How to run celery tasks manually from shell

Assuming the task is called my_task in Django app myapp in a tasks submodule:

$ python manage.py shell
>>> from myapp.tasks import my_task
>>> eager_result = my_task.apply()

The result instance has the same API as the usual AsyncResult type, except that the result is always evaluated eagerly and locally and the .apply() method will block until the task is run to completion.