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Best way to schedule task in Django, without Celery

Im looking for relatively simple and lightweight way to setup primitive DB maintain tasks for Django-based web-site. Celery seems for me like overkill. In my mind its now looking like making custom ...
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Algorithm to schedule tasks in up to 'p' processors who each have fixed task queue lengths

How to write the logic to schedule tasks where I need to: Schedule len(task_fifo) tasks on a processor group pg, pg has up to p processors 1 <= num_of_processors <= p processors. To reserve ...
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How do I sleep a dedicated python thread for task scheduling?

I'm writing a library that will connect to sockets and manage them, process its data, and do stuff based on that. My problem lays on sending b"\r\n\x00" to the socket every 20 seconds. I thought that ...
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How to run scheduled python script in windows 7

I am trying in vein to schedule a python task in windows 7 64bit. I have python 2.6 installed in the following directory. Dir-Path to python.exe C:\Python26\ArcGIS10.0 The script (hello.py) lives ...
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How do I run a script on friday, once every two weeks?

I could use cron, but I can't figure out if there's a way to set the right schedule. I can also check the date in Python, running the script via cron everyday, but checking the right date inside my ...
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python script advanced scheduling

I'm trying to do something really complicated. Using a Windows box, I'm try to get a script to run every half-an-hour, Mon-Fri, 9:00am-7:00pm, skipping certain dates I define as "holidays". I would ...
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How to download minute to minute stock data in given time range on python

I am trying to 1) Create a file which will write minute to minute data into csv file for a stock through ystockquote. 2) Start at a specific given time to specific end time . 3) For each minute, ...
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Job orchestration

I am currently redoing all our database orchestration jobs (ETL, backups, daily tasks, report compilation, etc.) To do that, I would need a task/job orchestrator where I can define tasks dependency, ...
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maximum number of running instances

My codes is as follows: sched = Scheduler() sched.start() y = range(1, 11) x = range(1, 11) fig = plt.figure(1) ax = fig.add_subplot(111) Ln, = ax.plot(x,y) plt.ion() ...
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Automate Python Script

I'm running a python script manually that fetches data in JSON format.How do I automate this script to run automatically on an hourly basis? I'm working on Windows7.Can I use tools like Task ...
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Difference between calling a script from cmd and from a scheduled task

I am currently trying to execute a script I wrote in Python (and then compiled into an exe) when my computer starts. This script simply downloads a file and copies it at a specified location in my ...
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Schedule `at` jobs with cygwin

I am running a bunch of simulations on several (non-equivalent) client machines. In order to ensure that each simulation is run only once, the clients connect to and schedule a task on a linux server. ...
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how to call / run multiple python scripts from batch file in window xp / 7

I'm trying to schedule run multiple pythons using batch file. For example there are my python files that I want to schedule run them on the daily basis D:\py\s1.py D:\py\s2.py now how can I ...
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Pros and cons to use Celery vs. RQ

Currently I'm working on python project that requires implement some background jobs (mostly for email sending and heavily database updates). I use Redis for task broker. So in this point I have two ...
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Distributed task queue with user based scheduling/prioritization

I have a number of users which can each submit an arbitrary number of tasks. I need a task queue which will schedule the tasks to be run in such a way that one user cannot starve the processing of ...

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