As far as making something run automatically at various times, if you're certain that you want to do it in a Mac-only way, Apple's recommended method for timing jobs is described here: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html "Getting started with launchd" otherwise use cron or at, as Tom said.
On Sep 11, 2007, at 11:54 AM, chinni wrote: > I am working on MAC OS x my project is updating all ready installed > products.I have to automate this in python.so,can any one will give > some suggestions and some examples how to automate.some basic > things of my project is ... i think u all know that there will be a > plist file for each product in mac.i have to degrade the version of > plist automatically through my script and it has to edit the plist > file and degrade it to least version and as to check for updates by > itself.like this there are 15 products under this now each time i > can't go and degrade the version and save it and run updates > manually..so,that can any one plz..tell me how to start from first > step... -- -dave---------------------------------------------------------------- "Pseudo-colored pictures of a person's brain lighting up are undoubtedly more persuasive than a pattern of squiggles produced by a polygraph. That could be a big problem if the goal is to get to the truth." -Dr. Steven Hyman, Harvard _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor