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author | Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm@nextday.fi> | 2014-06-17 21:59:30 +0300 |
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committer | Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm@nextday.fi> | 2014-06-17 21:59:30 +0300 |
commit | 5eec361124059f44d2547e48762aa5d736a199e9 (patch) | |
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Somewhat improved the README to look better on non-sphinx renderers
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@@ -6,14 +6,13 @@ restarted, it will then run all the jobs it should have run while it was offline Among other things, APScheduler can be used as a cross-platform, application specific replacement to platform specific schedulers, such as the cron daemon or the Windows task scheduler. Please note, however, that APScheduler is **not** a daemon or service itself, nor does it come with any command line tools. It is primarily meant to be run inside existing -applications. That said, there's nothing to stop you from using APScheduler to build a scheduler service or to run a -dedicated process for APScheduler. In fact, several users have reportedly already done so and the -:class:`~apscheduler.schedulers.blocking.BlockingScheduler` class was made specifically for that purpose. +applications. That said, APScheduler does provide some building blocks for you to build a scheduler service or to run a +dedicated scheduler process. APScheduler has three built-in scheduling systems you can use: -* Cron-style scheduling -* Interval-based execution (runs jobs on even intervals) +* Cron-style scheduling (with optional start/end times) +* Interval-based execution (runs jobs on even intervals, with optional start/end times) * One-off delayed execution (runs jobs once, on a set date/time) You can mix and match scheduling systems and the backends where the jobs are stored any way you like. |