Ben Finney wrote: > Ramashish Baranwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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.
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