Thank you all very much for your replies. Appreciate your thoughts. I'll
check this out.
Thanks.
Jay
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> On 2010-06-25, Tim Harig wrote:
>> It sounds to me, since your script is acting on an event, that it
>> would benefit from using something like inotify, or whatever your
>> system equiv
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:21:25 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message , Ian Kelly
> wrote:
>
>> I use cron.
>>
>> Con: Most cron implementations have a maximum frequency of once per
>> minute.
>
> Another con is: what happens if a run takes longer than the invocation
> frequency?
Not cro
In message , Ian Kelly
wrote:
> I use cron.
>
> Con: Most cron implementations have a maximum frequency of once per
> minute.
Another con is: what happens if a run takes longer than the invocation
frequency?
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> Currently, I have some scripts (in particular, applescript
> 'stay-open' scripts) that run continuously on a Mac through
> the day. They look in a certain folder every 30 seconds and
> perform the necessary work needed.
>
Take a look at inotify. Maybe it fits
On 2010-06-25, Tim Harig wrote:
> It sounds to me, since your script is acting on an event, that it
> would benefit from using something like inotify, or whatever your
> system equivilant would be (FSEvents for Mac? FAM framework for general
> POSIX. There are python modules available.), so that y
On 2010-06-25, wrote:
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> I was curious if anyone here on the list does anything similar
> with Python? If so, do you use launchd, cron, etc in order to
> start up your Python script at the appropriate time(s)? Or do
> you just let your Python code run continuously? I'm curi
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:49 AM, wrote:
> Currently, I have some scripts (in particular, applescript
> 'stay-open' scripts) that run continuously on a Mac through
> the day. They look in a certain folder every 30 seconds and
> perform the necessary work needed.
>
> I was curious if anyone here o
