The countdown parameter of TaskQueue is indeed a big help here. Thanks for pointing that out.
-- [email protected] http://supercobrablogger.blogspot.com/ On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Uros Trebec <[email protected]> wrote: > re > > On Jan 14, 7:24 pm, supercobra <[email protected]> wrote: >> One of the challenge is to wait for 5 minutes. E.g. Fetch a URL, store >> results, wait 5 min, do it again. Since a queue will execute the task >> almost immediately (if it is empty) this would not work unless the >> queue is filled w/ a known number of tasks. >> >> Any suggestion welcome. > > You can use the 'countdown' parameter in Task constructor ( > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/tasks.html#Task > ) to set the number of seconds for the Task to wait in the queue > before executing. I use this for scheduling a task a few minutes in > the future when UrlFetch returns the data I already have. > > lp, > Uros > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
