wakepy 0.7.0

Simple wakelock / keep-awake / stay-awake

   

⏰😴 wakepy

Simple cross-platform wakelock written in Python. Comes with python API and a single executable for CLI usage.

Supports

• Python: 3.7 to 3.12
• OS: Windows, Linux and macOS

What it can do?

• Prevent your system from going to sleep in the middle of a long running task (e.g. training machine learning models, video encoding, web scraping, ...)
• Prevent starting a screensaver or screenlock automatically (showing a video, updating dashboard, monitoring apps, ...)

Used by

• viskillz-blender — Generating assets of Mental Cutting Test exercises
• mpc-autofill — Automating MakePlayingCards' online ordering system
• lakeshorecryotronics/python-driver — Lake Shore instruments python Driver
• UCSD-E4E/baboon-tracking — In pipelines of a Computer Vision project tracking baboons
• davlee1972/upscale_video — Upscaling video using AI
• minarca — Cross-platform data backup software

Documentation

👉 wakepy.readthedocs.io

⚖️👑 Key selling points

• Wakepy supports multiple operating systems and desktop environments
• Wakepy has permissive MIT licence
• It has a simple command line interface and a python API
• Wakepy has very little python dependencies:
  • Zero if using Windows or macOS or Linux + systemd
  • One if using linux + jeepney or linux + dbus-python.

Deprecation timeline (wakepy 0.7.0+)

Since deprecations may affect many users, they are communicated well before and time is given for project maintainers for migration. Timeline:

• June 11th 2023: Release wakepy 0.7.0 with DeprecationWarnings for keepawake, set_keepawake and unset_keepawake, and the CLI option -s. Migration Guide published.
• September 1st 2023 (or few days later): Release wakepy without the deprecated keepawake, set_keepawake and unset_keepawake; Only new API supported.