>I have a repetitive background task I'd like to run in my Django >environment, for example, once a minute. What's the best way to do >this? Currently, I run a cron job that executes a Python script, >imports the Django modules it needs, and does its work. But this means >configuring this cron job on every development machine and server to >have the complete environment.
One way is to do it with a crontab entry - at least if it is a background job that is triggered by a given time. If it is triggered by an event, it might be better to use something like my jobcontrol application: https://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/wiki/JobControl Essentially it's just a way to do a fork from your django project, so whenever you know that some event in your app needs some background execution, you can hook it up to the jobcontrol stuff. The jobs themselves are tracked in the database, so you can see wether they are still running or already done. I use it for example to trigger pings to Ping-O-Matic when adding new content to my site. bye, Georg
