'The tasks current state.
Possible values includes:
*PENDING*
The task is waiting for execution.
*STARTED*
The task has been started.
*RETRY*
The task is to be retried, possibly because of failure.
*FAILURE*
The task raised an exception, or has exceeded the retry limit.
The :attr:`result` attribute then contains the
exception raised by the task.
*SUCCESS*
The task executed successfully.  The :attr:`result` attribute
then contains the tasks return value.'

@property
def state(self):

    return self._get_task_meta()[u'status']
