Run a task at specific intervals in python
python, timer
Solution
There is a handy event scheduler that might do what you need. Here's a link to the documentation:
http://docs.python.org/library/sched.html
Problem
Possible Duplicate: Suggestions for a Cron like scheduler in Python? What would be the most pythonic way to schedule a function to run periodically as a background task? There are some ideas here, but they all seem rather ugly to me. And incomplete. The java Timer class has a very complete solution. Anyone know of a similar python class?