Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:09 PM, John Salerno johnj...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. I changed it as suggested so that now it runs C: \Python32\python.exe extract_songs.py but it still isn't working. Have you confirmed that the job's working directory is set correctly? Naming the script without a path depends on the task being run from the script's directory. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On Jul 14, 7:00 pm, monkeys paw mon...@joemoney.net wrote: On 7/9/2011 10:01 PM, John Salerno wrote: Thanks everyone! I probably should have said something like Python, if possible and efficient, otherwise any other method ! :) I'll look into the Task Scheduler. Thanks again! You could use the below code. time.sleep(# seconds in a day) where i == 30 would run once a day for a month import time i=0 while (1): print 'hello' time.sleep(2) # Change this to number of seconds in a day if (i == 3): # make this 30 for a month break i = i + 1 This looks like a bad idea to me: to make it work throughout the year you need to adjust for daylight savings start and end; this is where a day does not have 24 hours - and, of course, daylight savings depends on country settings of your host system... Andreas bal...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, John Salerno wrote: On Jul 26, 9:22 pm, Andrew Bergbahamutzero8...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011.07.26 08:05 PM,JohnSalernowrote: Hmm, okay I'm finally trying Task Scheduler, but how do I set it to run a Python script? It seems to not work, I suppose because it's running the script but doesn't know how to find Python to run it properly. Tell it to run the Python interpreter and pass the script as an argument. -- CPython 3.2.1 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17592 | Thunderbird 5.0 PGP/GPG Public Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB Thank you. I changed it as suggested so that now it runs C: \Python32\python.exe extract_songs.py but it still isn't working. A DOS prompt flashes real quick as it runs, but when I check the output file that is supposed to be written to, nothing new has been added. I'm not sure what the problem is now. I know the script itself works because I just ran it manually and the output was fine. As Chris pointed out, you probably aren't getting the script's directory right. After all, how can the scheduler guess where you put it? The obvious answer is to use a full path for the script's filename. Another alternative is to fill in the current directory in the appropriate field of the scheduler's entry. I find it useful to only add batch files to the scheduler. Those batch files can do any setup and cleanup necessary. In this case, the batch file might simply set the current directory to the location of the script. But it can also pause at the end, so you can read the console before it disappears. Or it could create another file, so you could check the timestamp to figure out when it was triggered. DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: As Chris pointed out, you probably aren't getting the script's directory right. After all, how can the scheduler guess where you put it? The obvious answer is to use a full path for the script's filename. Another alternative is to fill in the current directory in the appropriate field of the scheduler's entry. I would prefer setting the current directory, as that allows the script to find any data files it needs, but either works. I find it useful to only add batch files to the scheduler. Those batch files can do any setup and cleanup necessary. In this case, the batch file might simply set the current directory to the location of the script. And that is an excellent idea. Definitely recommended. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On 07/27/2011 08:35 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Dave Angelda...@ieee.org wrote: As Chris pointed out, you probably aren't getting the script's directory right. After all, how can the scheduler guess where you put it? The obvious answer is to use a full path for the script's filename. Another alternative is to fill in the current directory in the appropriate field of the scheduler's entry. I would prefer setting the current directory, as that allows the script to find any data files it needs, but either works. I find it useful to only add batch files to the scheduler. Those batch files can do any setup and cleanup necessary. In this case, the batch file might simply set the current directory to the location of the script. And that is an excellent idea. Definitely recommended. ChrisA If it hasn't been mentioned already: import time while True: t1 = time.time() #your code here t2 = time.time() time.sleep( 86400 - (t2 - t1) ) This doesn't take into account leap seconds, but it doesn't depend on a task scheduler. It is also independent of the time your code takes to execute. This is simpler, but it might drift slightly over time. -- Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On Jul 27, 7:58 am, Billy Mays 81282ed9a88799d21e77957df2d84bd6514d9...@myhashismyemail.com wrote: On 07/27/2011 08:35 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Dave Angelda...@ieee.org wrote: As Chris pointed out, you probably aren't getting the script's directory right. After all, how can the scheduler guess where you put it? The obvious answer is to use a full path for the script's filename. Another alternative is to fill in the current directory in the appropriate field of the scheduler's entry. I would prefer setting the current directory, as that allows the script to find any data files it needs, but either works. I find it useful to only add batch files to the scheduler. Those batch files can do any setup and cleanup necessary. In this case, the batch file might simply set the current directory to the location of the script. And that is an excellent idea. Definitely recommended. ChrisA If it hasn't been mentioned already: import time while True: t1 = time.time() #your code here t2 = time.time() time.sleep( 86400 - (t2 - t1) ) This doesn't take into account leap seconds, but it doesn't depend on a task scheduler. It is also independent of the time your code takes to execute. This is simpler, but it might drift slightly over time. -- Bill Well, I specified the full path name but it still doesn't seem to work. A DOS prompt flashes for about a second that says taskeng.exe in the title bar, but the script itself still isn't being run. I don't know about batch files but I'll read up on them and see if that will be a better solution. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On Jul 9, 9:01 pm, John Salerno johnj...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone! I probably should have said something like Python, if possible and efficient, otherwise any other method ! :) I'll look into the Task Scheduler. Thanks again! Hmm, okay I'm finally trying Task Scheduler, but how do I set it to run a Python script? It seems to not work, I suppose because it's running the script but doesn't know how to find Python to run it properly. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
John Salerno wrote: On Jul 9, 9:01 pm, John Salerno johnj...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone! I probably should have said something like Python, if possible and efficient, otherwise any other method ! :) I'll look into the Task Scheduler. Thanks again! Hmm, okay I'm finally trying Task Scheduler, but how do I set it to run a Python script? It seems to not work, I suppose because it's running the script but doesn't know how to find Python to run it properly. You need to have Python be the command, then add the script as the parameter (you may need to right-click and go to properties... or something like that ;) . ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On 2011.07.26 08:05 PM, John Salerno wrote: Hmm, okay I'm finally trying Task Scheduler, but how do I set it to run a Python script? It seems to not work, I suppose because it's running the script but doesn't know how to find Python to run it properly. Tell it to run the Python interpreter and pass the script as an argument. -- CPython 3.2.1 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17592 | Thunderbird 5.0 PGP/GPG Public Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On Jul 26, 9:22 pm, Andrew Berg bahamutzero8...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011.07.26 08:05 PM,JohnSalernowrote: Hmm, okay I'm finally trying Task Scheduler, but how do I set it to run a Python script? It seems to not work, I suppose because it's running the script but doesn't know how to find Python to run it properly. Tell it to run the Python interpreter and pass the script as an argument. -- CPython 3.2.1 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17592 | Thunderbird 5.0 PGP/GPG Public Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB Thank you. I changed it as suggested so that now it runs C: \Python32\python.exe extract_songs.py but it still isn't working. A DOS prompt flashes real quick as it runs, but when I check the output file that is supposed to be written to, nothing new has been added. I'm not sure what the problem is now. I know the script itself works because I just ran it manually and the output was fine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On 7/9/2011 10:01 PM, John Salerno wrote: Thanks everyone! I probably should have said something like Python, if possible and efficient, otherwise any other method ! :) I'll look into the Task Scheduler. Thanks again! You could use the below code. time.sleep(# seconds in a day) where i == 30 would run once a day for a month import time i=0 while (1): print 'hello' time.sleep(2) # Change this to number of seconds in a day if (i == 3):# make this 30 for a month break i = i + 1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM, monkeys paw mon...@joemoney.net wrote: You could use the below code. time.sleep(# seconds in a day) where i == 30 would run once a day for a month import time i=0 while (1): print 'hello' time.sleep(2) # Change this to number of seconds in a day if (i == 3): # make this 30 for a month break i = i + 1 If the system ever gets rebooted during that month, then you would need to remember to manually restart the script. Or if the effective part of the script raises an exception, it could crash the whole script without some defensive coding. That's why it's better just to use the system scheduler service. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On 10/07/11 04:01, John Salerno wrote: Thanks everyone! I probably should have said something like Python, if possible and efficient, otherwise any other method ! :) I'll look into the Task Scheduler. Thanks again! You may use Celery http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-tasks.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
John Salerno johnj...@gmail.com writes: I have a script that does some stuff that I want to run every day for maybe a week, or a month. So far I've been good about running it every night, but is there some way (using Python, of course) that I can make it automatically run at a set time each night? Well - you can make a long lived python process that puts itself to sleep for 24 hours and then wakes up and does stuff, but the normal approach to this kind of thing is to use cron. On windows there's also some kind of scheduler. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
I have a script that does some stuff that I want to run every day for maybe a week, or a month. So far I've been good about running it every night, but is there some way (using Python, of course) that I can make it automatically run at a set time each night? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On 2011.07.09 07:26 PM, John Salerno wrote: I have a script that does some stuff that I want to run every day for maybe a week, or a month. So far I've been good about running it every night, but is there some way (using Python, of course) that I can make it automatically run at a set time each night? I would use the OS to worry about scheduling (cron/Windows Task Scheduler/whatever), but in Python, you could probably use a while True loop, time.sleep() (to specify how often to check the time) and a datetime.time or datetime.now object (e.g. datetime.now().hour). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
John Salerno johnj...@gmail.com writes: is there some way (using Python, of course) that I can make it automatically run at a set time each night? You need to use whatever facilities your operating system has for scheduled events. That's unrelated to the language you use for implementing the program. On a Unix-like system (e.g. GNU+Linux), you could create a ‘cron’ job entry. -- \ “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking | `\ they don't have any.” —Alice Walker | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On 10.07.2011 02:26, John Salerno wrote: I have a script that does some stuff that I want to run every day for maybe a week, or a month. So far I've been good about running it every night, but is there some way (using Python, of course) that I can make it automatically run at a set time each night? Use your operating system's facilities to run timed jobs. Unix/Linux: Cron jobs Windows: Scheduled Tasks Mac: don't know, but probably Cron too -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On 10Jul2011 03:00, Alexander Kapps alex.ka...@web.de wrote: | On 10.07.2011 02:26, John Salerno wrote: | I have a script that does some stuff that I want to run every day for | maybe a week, or a month. So far I've been good about running it every | night, but is there some way (using Python, of course) that I can make | it automatically run at a set time each night? | | Use your operating system's facilities to run timed jobs. | | Unix/Linux: Cron jobs | Windows: Scheduled Tasks | Mac: don't know, but probably Cron too Yep. Macs are UNIX, BSD derived. -- Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ USENET: Post to exotic, distant machines. Meet exciting, unusual people. And flame them. - Dan Sorenson, z1...@exnet.iastate.edu, DoD #1066 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
Thanks everyone! I probably should have said something like Python, if possible and efficient, otherwise any other method ! :) I'll look into the Task Scheduler. Thanks again! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 10Jul2011 03:00, Alexander Kapps alex.ka...@web.de wrote: | On 10.07.2011 02:26, John Salerno wrote: | I have a script that does some stuff that I want to run every day for | maybe a week, or a month. So far I've been good about running it every | night, but is there some way (using Python, of course) that I can make | it automatically run at a set time each night? | | Use your operating system's facilities to run timed jobs. | | Unix/Linux: Cron jobs | Windows: Scheduled Tasks | Mac: don't know, but probably Cron too Yep. Macs are UNIX, BSD derived. Macs have Cron, but Apple's trying to switch away from it. They wrote their own framework to replace the various process-launching programs called launchd. It uses a pretty simple XML config file to launch programs either at startup (replacing init) or on an schedule (replacing cron). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
