Start a repeating job at a specific time.
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 12.3k
- Forks
- 999
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
It's very nice that schedule has [`until`](https://schedule.readthedocs.io/en/stable/examples.html#run-a-job-until-a-certain-time), but it feels like the project is missing a `from`(or similarly named function). For example, if I want to run a job every minute between the hours of 10am and 2pm.
The syntax, with until, could be something like the following:
```
schedule.every().minute.from(10:00).until("14:00").do(job)
```
There is some ambiguity about what happens around midnight. I would think a reasonable option would be to
* repeat the job until the `until` time or midnight and
* don't run between 0:00 and the `from` time.
The best workaround that I can think of to get the `from` behavior is to schedule a job at a specific time to run once and have that job schedule other jobs that run until an `until` time. This is a bit clunky to me.
Thanks for the great library!
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
Research direction
Start with the existing `until` example and its implementation, then review how recurring jobs are scheduled around day and midnight boundaries. Define the `from` semantics, including the ambiguous midnight behavior, and consider the proposed `schedule.every().minute.from(...).until(...).do(job)` usage done when the behavior and API are specified and tested.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100