Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-30 Thread momobear
On May 29, 2:33 pm, Ramashish Baranwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with > unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I have tried looking > around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate any pointers or > clues.. > > T

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-30 Thread vasudevram
Steve Howell wrote: >Thanks. Here are two links, not sure those are >exactly what are being referenced here, but look in >the ballpark: > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413137 > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sched.html You're welcome. The ActiveState recipe you me

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-30 Thread Irmen de Jong
Ramashish Baranwal wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with > unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I have tried looking > around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate any pointers or > clues.. > > Thanks, > -Ram > Have a look at Kron

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Steve Howell
--- vasudevram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 29, 4:39 pm, Steve Holden > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > Yes. Also,

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread vasudevram
On May 29, 4:39 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 4

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Steve Holden
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 tri

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Ramashish Baranwal
> > 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 wo

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Steve Howell
--- Ramashish Baranwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, > those familiar with > unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I > have tried looking > around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate > any pointers or > clues.. > I'm also

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Ben Finney
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 f

Periodic tasks.

2007-05-28 Thread Ramashish Baranwal
Hi, I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I have tried looking around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate any pointers or clues.. Thanks, -Ram -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list