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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Rita <rmorgan466@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here is what I am trying to do. (Currently, I am doing this in cron but i
> need much more granularity). I am trying to run program every 20 secs and
> loop forever. I have several of these types of processes, some should run
> every 5 mins, 10 secs, 20 secs, 1 min and so forth. I was wondering what is
> the best way to do this?

I've had a good experience with APScheduler
(http://pythonhosted.org/APScheduler/ ), although my particular
use-case was trivial, but it totally supports periodic scheduling.

Cheers,
Chris