> > 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/Webware-0.7/TaskKit/Docs/ QuickStart.html) that has such a scheduler. Does anyone have any experience with it? Ram -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
