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Craig Martin
Craig Martin

Reputation: 169

How to schedule a task in Python each week day every n seconds

I want my Python code to execute a function every week day (Monday to Friday) and not on weekends (Saturday and Sunday)

Is there an easy way to achieve this using the schedule library?

So far I have manage to execute the function every day, every 10 seconds. But this will also execute it on Saturdays and Sundays

def helloWorld():
    print("Hello World!!!")


schedule.every(10).days.seconds.do(helloWorld)
while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4502

Answers (2)

Sinth0ras
Sinth0ras

Reputation: 11

one way to do it is to replace your

.days with .monday through .friday

That way you could shedule 5 Task that run on Monday through Friday and all 5 jobs would do nothing on all other days.

for reference for some examples with monday instead of days https://schedule.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Upvotes: 1

Carsten
Carsten

Reputation: 3048

You can do an if statement that checks the weekday (Monday is 0):

if datetime.datetime.now().weekday() < 5:
    do_something()

I agree with Ankit that a cron job might be more stable.

Upvotes: 1

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