Hey, I would like to create a background timer, and when it finishes I
would like web2py to do something.
I have tried numerous ways to do this, without succeeding. The closest one
to success looked like this:
1. import urllib; urllib.urlopen(url).read() # read url which is a php
script that calls a python script that sleeps
2. url is a php script that calls a python script that sleeps inside thread
3. the php script uses exec("/path/to/script.py &") which goes in the
background
4. when I access the php url from my browser the web server answers
instantly, which is why I thought it would succeed
5. when I access the php url from python/web2py however, as in the code
above, it waits until after the sleep, which causes a timeout
Note that web2py is using apache webserver in my case.
I have also tried to sleep inside a thread in web2py, calling the script
through a subprocess from web2py, but nothing has worked.
Is there any way to run a web2py command after a customly chosen time?
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