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

[Giorgos Tzampanakis]

On 2013-06-16, C. N. Desrosiers wrote:

> 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?

I would suggest leaving your computer on and using the sched and
subprocess modules of the standard library.

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