Periodic tasks.

[Ramashish Baranwal]

Hi,

I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with
unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I have tried looking
around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate any pointers or
clues..

Thanks,
-Ram

[Ben Finney]

Ramashish Baranwal <ra*************@gmail.comwrites:

I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with
unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs.

Can you not use cron? If not, why not? Is there an equivalent service
you can use?

I have tried looking around, but couldn't find a way.

Using the services provided by the operating system would be far
preferable to re-inventing a scheduler service.

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[Ramashish Baranwal]

I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with

unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs.

Can you not use cron? If not, why not? Is there an equivalent service
you can use?

I can, but the work I want to do is written in Python. This is not an
issue but I would have more than one such tasks running at different
periods and it will be desirable to control or monitor all of them
from a single process. If I use cron, all of them will execute
independently.

>

I have tried looking around, but couldn't find a way.

Using the services provided by the operating system would be far
preferable to re-inventing a scheduler service.

Agreed, but my requirement is a little different. There is a TaskKit
package (http://webware.sourceforge.net/Webwa.../TaskKit/Docs/
QuickStart.html) that has such a scheduler. Does anyone have any
experience with it?

Ram

[Steve Holden]

Ben Finney wrote:

Ramashish Baranwal <ra*************@gmail.comwrites:

>I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with
unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs.

Can you not use cron? If not, why not? Is there an equivalent service
you can use?

>I have tried looking around, but couldn't find a way.

Using the services provided by the operating system would be far
preferable to re-inventing a scheduler service.

Alternatively, the user could make use of the already-existing "sched"
module from the standard library. With a little threading that would do
the job fine.

regards
Steve
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[vasudevram]

On May 29, 4:39 pm, Steve Holden <[e-mail]:

Alternatively, the user could make use of the already-existing "sched"
module from the standard library. With a little threading that would do
the job fine.

regards
Steve
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Yes. Also, there's an example in the Python Cookbook (print edition)
which is exactly about this - using sched. The recipe before that also
shows how to do it without using the sched library. Both those recipes
are purely in Python.

Vasudev Ram
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[Irmen de Jong]

Ramashish Baranwal wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with
unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I have tried looking
around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate any pointers or
clues..

Thanks,
-Ram

Have a look at Kronos, a simple task scheduler I wrote a while ago,
based on sched. It's part of Turbogears as well:
http://trac.turbogears.org/browser/t...s/scheduler.py
--Irmen

[vasudevram]

Steve Howell wrote:

>Thanks. Here are two links, not sure those are
exactly what are being referenced here, but look in
the ballpark:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/413137

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sched.html

You're welcome.

The ActiveState recipe you mention above is not the one I meant,
although it uses sched.
I saw the recipe that I mentioned, in the print version of the Python
Cookbook, when reading it a few days ago.

The second link above you mention is right, its about the sched
library.

Also just found these other recipes in the online Python Cookbook, may
or may not be of help to you:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/496800
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/114644
Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com

[momobear]

On May 29, 2:33 pm, Ramashish Baranwal <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with
unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I have tried looking
around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate any pointers or
clues..

Thanks,
-Ram

I googled "twisted cron", if u use twisted, that's maybe help u:
http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/src/...8967&view=auto
http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/t...ne/013525.html