Python script to do something at the same time every day [duplicate]

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I spent quite a bit of time also looking to launch a simple Python program at 01:00. For some reason, I couldn’t get cron to launch it and APScheduler seemed rather complex for something that should be simple. Schedule (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/schedule) seemed about right.

You will have to install their Python library:

pip install schedule

This is modified from their sample program:

import schedule
import time

def job(t):
    print "I'm working...", t
    return

schedule.every().day.at("01:00").do(job,'It is 01:00')

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(60) # wait one minute

You will need to put your own function in place of job and run it with nohup, e.g.:

nohup python2.7 MyScheduledProgram.py &

Don’t forget to start it again if you reboot.

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