I used a different approach to get the
same effect. I placed all my deferred
tasks into a separate module. In the
module's imports, I included the
import:
import common.appenginepatch.main
This causes all AEP initialization to
occur. Deferred is working like a
champ in production.
I finally got it to work after getting a tip on the app-engine-patch news group:
Thanks JohnP!