On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, 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 *on the system itself* cannot do this. However, if the BIOS features aren't enough (eg if you want more flexibility), there's one option to explore. See if your Macbook has Wake-On-LAN support; with that, you could have a Python script *on a different machine* send a magic packet that wakes your target. However, this isn't a Python question, it's a systems administration one. (The very specific question "How can I trigger wake-on-LAN from a Python program" would be a Python question (obviously!), but that's only a tiny part of your problem.) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
