Execute a Command once a Week in Python-CodePudding

I have a script for a Twitter bot which will send out a Tweet every Friday, however I'm struggling to find a way to make keep it from killing the code if it is not Friday.

I have tried using a loop which does usually work for my Discord bot, but my 11pm brain didn't realise it was discord.py syntax until before I executed that. As a result, I can't think of anything else to try. I have looked over Google and the links to this site that Google gives but I can't find much that helps me.

Here is the code I am using:

for i in range(10000):
  if date.today().weekday() == 6:
    i  = 1
    print("Congratulating those who made it to Friday :D")
    api.update_status(f"Week {i} of Congratulations Sailor, you made it to Friday!\nhttps://www.youtube.com/videoid")
    print("Congratulated\n")
  else:
    print("not friday :(")
    asyncio.sleep(10)

But that just constantly prints not friday :( into the console for 10 seconds before killing the code and not trying again.

So any help would be appreciated. Also, I am sorry if I am missing something so simple, my 11pm brain isn't the best.

Thanks

CodePudding user response：

You can use the schedule module to schedule a job to run once a week. Schedule is a light-weight in-process scheduler for periodic jobs in Python.

import time
import schedule

def job():
    print("I'm working...")
    # add your Twitter code here

# Run job on a specific day of the week
schedule.every().friday.do(job)

# Run job on a specific day of the week and time
schedule.every().friday.at("13:15").do(job)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1800)

More examples are found here.

Alternatively, rather than running a Python process 24x7, you could use the native scheduler to run your application. On Windows search for "Task Scheduler" and for both macOS and Linux a cron job can be specified. Python executes with your script on your specified schedule then terminates when the application is done.

CodePudding user response：

Not sure if it helps but you could try using the time module. It has a sleep function, and you could perhaps make it sleep for a day.

There are a few issues with using sleep for a long time since sleep(n) doesn't sleep exactly for n seconds, it could sleep for a slightly shorter time. Hard coding it using the time function might be useful if that happens.