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Subject: Re: Using Python to automatically boot my computer at a specific time and play a podcast
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:18:07 -0400
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:06:08 -0700 (PDT), "C. N. Desrosiers"
<cndesrosiers@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>Hi,
>
>I'm planning to buy a Macbook Air and I want to use it as a sort of alarm.  I'd like to write a program that boots my computer at a specific time, loads iTunes, and starts playing a podcast.  Is this sort of thing possible in Python?
>
	Uhm... It can't run a program until after it has been booted.

	And if you leave the system up and running, I'm sure the OS has some
sort of scheduled task system (probably a version of cron) in which you can
define what should happen when...
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