Later A simple in-process thread-safe scheduler
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Later is a in-process thread-safe scheduler for Python.WHYNone of the existing python schedulers suited my needs so I had to write my own.HOWLater is really easy to use. In your process, you create an instance of the Scheduler class. You use only this to interact with the scheduling.from later import laterscheduler = later.Scheduler()The most important methods of Scheduler are add_delayed_job and add_periodic_job. Use the first one to trigger a function only once in the future. The later one can be used to schedule the same function in intervals. The only required parameter to these methods is the callable that will be executed in the future.import functoolssms_sender = functools.partial(send_sms, "+112345678", "Hello Monty") # assuming send_sms is a functionscheduler.add_delayed_job(sms_sender, minutes=2) # will send an sms to Monty in 2 minutesYou can also pass a name parameter. This should be a string that acts as an identifier of the scheduled job. Both methods return this string. Additional keyword arguments are days, hours, minutes and seconds. Use these to schedule the job in an appropriate time in the future. With add_periodic_job, the delay is also used as the period.cappuccino_maker = functools.partial(make_espresso, cream=True, whipped=True)scheduler.add_periodic_job(cappuccino_maker, name="Cappuccino FTW", hours=3) # make a cappuccino every 3 hoursIf you want to end the periodic job from inside, raise later.StopJobException in it. This will cause the scheduler to stop any planned executions of the job. See the examples/ directory in the repo for some more examples on how to use Later.Because the scheduling is based on the threading.Timer class, keep in mind the execution may not fire in precisely the same moment as you specified.As mentioned earlier, Later is not a persistent scheduler. All jobs are stored in the operating memory. Once you end the python process, the scheduled jobs are lost.Product's homepage

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