Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day?

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On 10.07.2011 02:26, John Salerno wrote:
> I have a script that does some stuff that I want to run every day for
> maybe a week, or a month. So far I've been good about running it every
> night, but is there some way (using Python, of course) that I can make
> it automatically run at a set time each night?

Use your operating system's facilities to run timed jobs.

Unix/Linux: Cron jobs
Windows: Scheduled Tasks
Mac: don't know, but probably Cron too

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How can I make a program automatically run once per day? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-09 17:26 -0700
  Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-07-10 10:40 +1000
  Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-07-09 19:49 -0500
  Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Alexander Kapps <alex.kapps@web.de> - 2011-07-10 03:00 +0200
    Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-09 19:01 -0700
      Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Rafael Durán Castañeda <rafadurancastaneda@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 10:49 +0200
      Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? monkeys paw <monkey@joemoney.net> - 2011-07-14 13:00 -0400
        Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-14 11:13 -0600
        Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? baloan <baloand@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-27 01:41 -0700
      Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 18:05 -0700
        Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-07-26 19:02 -0700
        Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 21:22 -0500
          Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 21:09 -0700
            Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-27 16:55 +1000
            Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org> - 2011-07-27 08:27 -0400
            Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-27 22:35 +1000
              Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Billy Mays <81282ed9a88799d21e77957df2d84bd6514d9af6@myhashismyemail.com> - 2011-07-27 08:58 -0400
                Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-27 09:03 -0700
  Re: How can I make a program automatically run once per day? Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2011-07-10 11:21 +0100

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