On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, John Salerno wrote:
On Jul 26, 9:22 pm, Andrew Berg<bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2011.07.26 08:05 PM,JohnSalernowrote:> Hmm, okay I'm finally trying Task
Scheduler, but how do I set it to
run a Python script? It seems to not work, I suppose because it's
running the script but doesn't know how to find Python to run it
properly.
Tell it to run the Python interpreter and pass the script as an argument.
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Thank you. I changed it as suggested so that now it runs C:
\Python32\python.exe extract_songs.py but it still isn't working. A
DOS prompt flashes real quick as it runs, but when I check the output
file that is supposed to be written to, nothing new has been added.
I'm not sure what the problem is now. I know the script itself works
because I just ran it manually and the output was fine.
As Chris pointed out, you probably aren't getting the script's directory
right. After all, how can the scheduler guess where you put it? The
obvious answer is to use a full path for the script's filename. Another
alternative is to fill in the current directory in the appropriate field
of the scheduler's entry.
I find it useful to only add batch files to the scheduler. Those batch
files can do any setup and cleanup necessary. In this case, the batch
file might simply set the current directory to the location of the
script. But it can also pause at the end, so you can read the console
before it disappears. Or it could create another file, so you could
check the timestamp to figure out when it was triggered.
DaveA
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