You are on point Jim, you get what i'm trying to achieve, let me see if i can put it together.
Regards; On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 8:48:34 PM UTC+2 Jim S wrote: > 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/063eaa9f-f85f-4569-95ab-17d60f5b966fn%40googlegroups.com.
