Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-30 Thread Irmen de Jong
Ramashish Baranwal wrote: Hi, I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I have tried looking around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate any pointers or clues.. Thanks, -Ram Have a look at Kronos, a

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-30 Thread vasudevram
Steve Howell wrote: Thanks. Here are two links, not sure those are exactly what are being referenced here, but look in the ballpark: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413137 http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sched.html You're welcome. The ActiveState recipe you

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-30 Thread momobear
On May 29, 2:33 pm, Ramashish Baranwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I have tried looking around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate any pointers or clues.. Thanks,

Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Ramashish Baranwal
Hi, I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I have tried looking around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate any pointers or clues.. Thanks, -Ram -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Ben Finney
Ramashish Baranwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. Can you not use cron? If not, why not? Is there an equivalent service you can use? I have tried looking around, but couldn't find

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Steve Howell
--- Ramashish Baranwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. I have tried looking around, but couldn't find a way. Would appreciate any pointers or clues.. I'm also interested

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Ramashish Baranwal
I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. Can you not use cron? If not, why not? Is there an equivalent service you can use? I can, but the work I want to do is written in Python. This is not an issue but I would

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Steve Holden
Ben Finney wrote: Ramashish Baranwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs. Can you not use cron? If not, why not? Is there an equivalent service you can use? I have tried looking

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread vasudevram
On May 29, 4:39 pm, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively, the user could make use of the already-existing sched module from the standard library. With a little threading that would do the job fine. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119

Re: Periodic tasks.

2007-05-29 Thread Steve Howell
--- vasudevram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 29, 4:39 pm, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively, the user could make use of the already-existing sched module from the standard library. With a little threading that would do the job fine. Yes. Also, there's an