what do you mean by web2py's python interpreter? web2py do not have its own intepreter. it runs on Python interpreter.
You will like to look for web2py's built-in cron documentation. And do not use old/depreciated os.spawn if its possible to upgrade your python to 2.7 , use subprocess.Popen On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:17 AM, james c. <[email protected]> wrote: > At irregular intervals I need to cleanup files written by my > application for users. In the documentation it was suggested that one > of the possibilities is to launch a script to do this. I'm doing the > following from my controller and it works fine: > > os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, r'C:\Python25\python.exe', 'python', > 'clean_up.py '+the_path); > > > Is there a way I can do the same and use Web2Py's Python interpreter? > > thanks in advance for any advice, James
