schedule 0.3.1

Job scheduling for humans.

Python job scheduling for humans.

An in-process scheduler for periodic jobs that uses the builder pattern for configuration. Schedule lets you run Python functions (or any other callable) periodically at pre-determined intervals using a simple, human-friendly syntax.

Inspired by Adam Wiggins’ article “Rethinking Cron” (Google cache) and the clockwork Ruby module.

Features

• A simple to use API for scheduling jobs.

• Very lightweight and no external dependencies.

• Excellent test coverage.

• Tested on Python 2.7 and 3.4

Usage

$ pip install schedule

import schedule
import time

def job():
    print("I'm working...")

schedule.every(10).minutes.do(job)
schedule.every().hour.do(job)
schedule.every().day.at("10:30").do(job)
schedule.every().monday.do(job)
schedule.every().wednesday.at("13:15").do(job)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

FAQ

In lieu of a full documentation (coming soon) check out this set of frequently asked questions for solutions to some common questions.

Meta

Daniel Bader - @dbader_org - [e-mail]

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

https://github.com/dbader/schedule

History

0.3.1 (2014-09-03)

• Fixed an issue with unicode handling in setup.py that was causing trouble on Python 3 and Debian (https://github.com/dbader/schedule/issues/27). Thanks to @waghanza for reporting it.

• Added an FAQ item to describe how to deal with job functions that throw exceptions. Thanks @mplewis.

0.3.0 (2014-06-14)

• Added support for scheduling jobs on specific weekdays. Example: schedule.every().tuesday.do(job) or schedule.every().wednesday.at("13:15").do(job) (Thanks @abultman.)

• Run tests against Python 2.7 and 3.4. Python 3.3 should continue to work but we’re not actively testing it on CI anymore.

0.2.1 (2013-11-20)

• Fixed history (no code changes).

0.2.0 (2013-11-09)

• This release introduces two new features in a backwards compatible way:

• Allow jobs to cancel repeated execution: Jobs can be cancelled by calling schedule.cancel_job() or by returning schedule.CancelJob from the job function. (Thanks to @cfrco and @matrixise.)

• Updated at_time() to allow running jobs at a particular time every hour. Example: every().hour.at(':15').do(job) will run job 15 minutes after every full hour. (Thanks @mattss.)

• Refactored unit tests to mock datetime in a cleaner way. (Thanks @matts.)

0.1.11 (2013-07-30)

• Fixed an issue with next_run() throwing a ValueError exception when the job queue is empty. Thanks to @dpagano for pointing this out and thanks to @mrhwick for quickly providing a fix.

0.1.10 (2013-06-07)

• Fixed issue with at_time jobs not running on the same day the job is created (Thanks to @mattss)

0.1.9 (2013-05-27)

• Added schedule.next_run()

• Added schedule.idle_seconds()

• Args passed into do() are forwarded to the job function at call time

• Increased test coverage to 100%

0.1.8 (2013-05-21)

• Changed default delay_seconds for schedule.run_all() to 0 (from 60)

• Increased test coverage

0.1.7 (2013-05-20)

• API change: renamed schedule.run_all_jobs() to schedule.run_all()

• API change: renamed schedule.run_pending_jobs() to schedule.run_pending()

• API change: renamed schedule.clear_all_jobs() to schedule.clear()

• Added schedule.jobs

0.1.6 (2013-05-20)

• Fix packaging

• README fixes

0.1.4 (2013-05-20)

• API change: renamed schedule.tick() to schedule.run_pending_jobs()

• Updated README and setup.py packaging

0.1.0 (2013-05-19)

• Initial release