Using Python to automatically boot my computer at a specific time and play a podcast

[C. N. Desrosiers]

Thank you!


On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swails at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:06 PM, C. N. Desrosiers <cndesrosiers at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I'm planning to buy a Macbook Air and I want to use it as a sort of
>> alarm.  I'd like to write a program that boots my computer at a specific
>> time, loads iTunes, and starts playing a podcast.  Is this sort of thing
>> possible in Python?
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> Python cannot do this by itself, as has already been mentioned.
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> If you're using a Mac, you can schedule your computer to turn on (and/or
> off) using System Preferences->Energy Saver->Schedule...
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> Then run a Python script in a cron job.
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> In fact, you could do this in bash ;)
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> HTH,
> Jason
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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