Python scheduler

[rusi]

On Feb 21, 9:04 am, Rita <rmorgan... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here is what I am trying to do. (Currently, I am doing this in cron but i
> need much more granularity). I am trying to run program every 20 secs and
> loop forever. I have several of these types of processes, some should run
> every 5 mins, 10 secs, 20 secs, 1 min and so forth. I was wondering what is
> the best way to do this?

Erlang, which is geared for such stuff, has its own internal cron
https://github.com/erlware/erlcron with 2 sec granularity.
Not an ideal solution I guess.  Anyway since you are using cron (ie
not within the python ecosystem) I am pointing this out.  Then you
could use the erlang equivalent of python's os.system.  In erlang its
os:cmd http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/os.html