Ok, I was mislead then. I thought I could use the task name to check  
if a task is still in the queue, by catching "TaskAlreadyExistsError".  
What's the best way to know if a task is still queued, then?

Best,
Benjamin

On 15 Sep 2009, at 00:36, Nick Johnson (Google) wrote:

> Hi Benjamin,
>
> As the docs say, tombstoned tasks stay that way for at least a week.  
> Generally you should never try and reuse a task name - generate a  
> task you expect to be unique each time.
>
> -Nick Johnson
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Benjamin Schuster-Böckler 
> <[email protected] 
> > wrote:
>
> I'm getting these a lot when trying to add new tasks to a queue. My
> understanding is that GAE will keep a "tombstone" for a  task that
> quit "recently", and if I try to add another task with the same name,
> it'll bum out. How long is this "tombstone" gonna stay in place? The
> tasks that are raising this exception have finished several hours ago.
> I can't find any information on this in the docs either.
>
> Thanks for the info, best,
>
> Benjamin
>
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