How to - scheduler.py

[Charlie of Bolton]

Hi,

I'm using windows XP and I`m wondering what is the best way to scheduled a start and stop time entered manually, let said btwn : Sep 06 10:00 2007 to Sep 06 11:00 2007. (I'm using windows XP). (Want just pure python script no task sheduler). Should I use ?:

./scheduler.py "sep 6 12:00 2007" "sep 6 13:00 2007" if so, how can I call a class ?

Tks

[bartonc]

Hi,

I'm using windows XP and I`m wondering what is the best way to scheduled a start and stop time entered manually, let said btwn : Sep 06 10:00 2007 to Sep 06 11:00 2007. (I'm using windows XP). (Want just pure python script no task sheduler). Should I use ?:

./scheduler.py "sep 6 12:00 2007" "sep 6 13:00 2007" if so, how can I call a class ?

Tks

I haven't played with this much, but here are some of the things that you will need:

>>> import time
>>> import sched
>>> def timedAction(arg1):
...     print arg1
...     
>>> s = sched.scheduler(time.time, time.sleep)
>>> startTime = time.mktime(time.strptime("sep 6 18:25 2007", '%b %d %H:%M %Y'))
>>> timer1 = s.enterabs(startTime, 0, timedAction, ("Hello world @ %f" %time.time(),))
>>> startTime = time.mktime(time.strptime("sep 6 18:25 2007", '%b %d %H:%M %Y'))
>>> timer1 = s.enterabs(startTime, 0, timedAction, ("Hello world @ %f" %time.time(),))
>>> s.run()
Hello world @ 1189122855.187000

[Charlie of Bolton]

Hello Bartonc,

What will be the right syntaxe if I want to add startDateTime = input_raw('Pls enter date and time : ') instead of a static date/time?

[bartonc]

Hello Bartonc,

What will be the right syntaxe if I want to add startDateTime = input_raw('Pls enter date and time : ') instead of a static date/time?

while True:
    startDateTime = input_raw('Pls enter date and time Mo Day HH:MM YYYY: ')
    try:
        timeTuple = time.strptime(startDateTime, '%b %d %H:%M %Y')
        break
    except ValueError:
        print "That is not a valid date. Please use Mo Day HH:MM YYYY."
startTime = time.mktime(timeTuple)

(Which, by the way, is a very odd date and time format.) Although you are asking a lot of the user to get the date typed in correctly and could do better checking.

[Charlie of Bolton]

Hi Bartonc,

looks nice but I need to put another raw_input to stop the scheduler,
how should look the syntax now ???

[bartonc]

Hi Bartonc,

looks nice but I need to put another raw_input to stop the scheduler,
how should look the syntax now ???

Then it's time to make it a funtion:

myOddDateFormat = "Mo Day HH:MM YYYY"
 
def GetDate(prompt):
    while True:
        startDateTime = input_raw("%s :%s: " %(prompt, myOddDateFormat))
        try:
            timeTuple = time.strptime(startDateTime, '%b %d %H:%M %Y')
            break
        except ValueError:
            print "That is not a valid date. Please use %s." %myOddDateFormat
    return time.mktime(timeTuple)
 
startTime = GetDate('Pls enter starting date and time')
stopTime = GetDate('Pls enter stopping date and time')