You are on point Jim, you get what i'm trying to achieve, let me see if i 
can put it together.

Regards;

On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 8:48:34 PM UTC+2 Jim S wrote:

> Ah, so this sounds a little different than what I thought you were after.
>
> Looks like you want to run a task at a regularly scheduled time, not based 
> on something that you've triggered in your application.
>
> Given that information, I'd turn to the scheduler on my host system.  Are 
> you running Linux then I'd just create a cron job.  Windows - add it to the 
> windows scheduler (they still have that on windows server, right?)
>
> Then I would go here ->  
> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#Command-line-options
>
> to learn how to craft a command that would call my script to determine who 
> to send emails to, and then send them.
>
> Does that help?
>
> (or, please correct me if my understanding of your problem is still off)
>
> -Jim
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 11:59:02 AM UTC-5, mostwanted wrote:
>>
>> Hey Jim, I'm failing to understand the scheduler, please if its not a 
>> bother simplify it for me. In my script below I wanna send users who host 
>> stuff on my site emails when their subscription is left with 7 days to 
>> expire. Ideally twice a week for these 7 days. I'm hosting my app with 
>> pythonanywhere. How do i put it together?
>>
>> *CODE*:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *import datetimedef email_reminder():    
>> dt=db(db.house_owner).select()    for dt in dt:            
>> now_dt=dt.expiry_date-request.now.date()            
>> now_dt2=now_dt.days            new_con=dt.controller+1            if 
>> now_dt2 <= 7:                mail.send(to=dt.email_address,subject="House 
>> Hosting Reminder",message ='Hello %s %s, \nThis is a reminder that your 
>> house listing with our service will expire in %d days. \nTo increase your 
>> suscription time or for further details please contact us at the given 
>> details.\n\nBest regards;' % (dt.Name, dt.Surname, now_dt2))                
>> db(db.house_owner.controller).update(controller=new_con)*
>>
>> *Regards;              *
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 4:02:42 PM UTC+2 Jim S wrote:
>>
>>> The web2py scheduler pretty much is a background task that runs 
>>> unnoticed.  
>>>
>>> I use it in a number of places to queue hundreds or thousands of 
>>> outbound emails.  I like the scheduler because it then also servers as a 
>>> log of the emails that were sent.
>>>
>>> If that isn't what you're looking for then how about celery or 
>>> redis-queue?  But, they are a bother because then you have more services 
>>> you need to grok, start up and manage.  The web2py scheduler takes care of 
>>> all of that for you.  Let me know if you want to see a sample of how we 
>>> handle it.
>>>
>>> -Jim
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 8:41:27 AM UTC-5, mostwanted wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to have a function always running without having to use 
>>>> a scheduler?
>>>> I have a function that i want to always send emails based on its 
>>>> arguments & conditions but i want it to run in the background unnoticed 
>>>> like a worker but not run by a scheduler, is this possible? I hope my 
>>>> question is clear.
>>>>
>>>> Regards;
>>>>
>>>> Mostwanted 
>>>>
>>>

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