Thank you!
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swa...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:06 PM, C. N. Desrosiers > <cndesrosi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm planning to buy a Macbook Air and I want to use it as a sort of >> alarm. I'd like to write a program that boots my computer at a specific >> time, loads iTunes, and starts playing a podcast. Is this sort of thing >> possible in Python? >> > > Python cannot do this by itself, as has already been mentioned. > > If you're using a Mac, you can schedule your computer to turn on (and/or > off) using System Preferences->Energy Saver->Schedule... > > Then run a Python script in a cron job. > > In fact, you could do this in bash ;) > > HTH, > Jason > -- Christian Nicolás Desrosiers Master of City Planning candidate School of Architecture + Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology t. 717 860 6252 e. c...@mit.edu www.twitter.com/cndesrosiers
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