Periodic tasks.

[Steve Holden]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Ramashish Baranwal <ramashish.lists at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with
>> unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs.
> 
> Can you not use cron? If not, why not? Is there an equivalent service
> you can use?
> 
>> I have tried looking around, but couldn't find a way.
> 
> Using the services provided by the operating system would be far
> preferable to re-inventing a scheduler service.
> 
Alternatively, the user could make use of the already-existing "sched" 
module from the standard library. With a little threading that would do 
the job fine.

regards
  Steve
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