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

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM, monkeys paw <monkey@joemoney.net> wrote:
> You could use the below code. time.sleep(# seconds in a day)
> where i == 30 would run once a day for a month
>
> import time
> i=0
> while (1):
>        print 'hello'
>        time.sleep(2)   # Change this to number of seconds in a day
>        if (i == 3):    # make this 30 for a month
>                break
>        i = i + 1

If the system ever gets rebooted during that month, then you would
need to remember to manually restart the script.  Or if the effective
part of the script raises an exception, it could crash the whole
script without some defensive coding.  That's why it's better just to
use the system scheduler service.

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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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