Ah, so this sounds a little different than what I thought you were after. Looks like you want to run a task at a regularly scheduled time, not based on something that you've triggered in your application.
Given that information, I'd turn to the scheduler on my host system. Are you running Linux then I'd just create a cron job. Windows - add it to the windows scheduler (they still have that on windows server, right?) Then I would go here -> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#Command-line-options to learn how to craft a command that would call my script to determine who to send emails to, and then send them. Does that help? (or, please correct me if my understanding of your problem is still off) -Jim On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 11:59:02 AM UTC-5, mostwanted wrote: > > Hey Jim, I'm failing to understand the scheduler, please if its not a > bother simplify it for me. In my script below I wanna send users who host > stuff on my site emails when their subscription is left with 7 days to > expire. Ideally twice a week for these 7 days. I'm hosting my app with > pythonanywhere. How do i put it together? > > *CODE*: > > > > > > > > > > *import datetimedef email_reminder(): dt=db(db.house_owner).select() > for dt in dt: > now_dt=dt.expiry_date-request.now.date() > now_dt2=now_dt.days new_con=dt.controller+1 if > now_dt2 <= 7: mail.send(to=dt.email_address,subject="House > Hosting Reminder",message ='Hello %s %s, \nThis is a reminder that your > house listing with our service will expire in %d days. \nTo increase your > suscription time or for further details please contact us at the given > details.\n\nBest regards;' % (dt.Name, dt.Surname, now_dt2)) > db(db.house_owner.controller).update(controller=new_con)* > > *Regards; * > > On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 4:02:42 PM UTC+2 Jim S wrote: > >> The web2py scheduler pretty much is a background task that runs >> unnoticed. >> >> I use it in a number of places to queue hundreds or thousands of outbound >> emails. I like the scheduler because it then also servers as a log of the >> emails that were sent. >> >> If that isn't what you're looking for then how about celery or >> redis-queue? But, they are a bother because then you have more services >> you need to grok, start up and manage. The web2py scheduler takes care of >> all of that for you. Let me know if you want to see a sample of how we >> handle it. >> >> -Jim >> >> >> On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 8:41:27 AM UTC-5, mostwanted wrote: >>> >>> >>> Is there a way to have a function always running without having to use a >>> scheduler? >>> I have a function that i want to always send emails based on its >>> arguments & conditions but i want it to run in the background unnoticed >>> like a worker but not run by a scheduler, is this possible? I hope my >>> question is clear. >>> >>> Regards; >>> >>> Mostwanted >>> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/68a6713f-d1cf-44d3-9c6a-a076fa6c430bo%40googlegroups.com.
