On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:06 PM, C. N. Desrosiers <cndesrosi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm planning to buy a Macbook Air and I want to use it as a sort of alarm. > I'd like to write a program that boots my computer at a specific time, > loads iTunes, and starts playing a podcast. Is this sort of thing possible > in Python? > Python cannot do this by itself, as has already been mentioned. If you're using a Mac, you can schedule your computer to turn on (and/or off) using System Preferences->Energy Saver->Schedule... Then run a Python script in a cron job. In fact, you could do this in bash ;) HTH, Jason
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