Cron jobs, or the ability to call a function

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Question:
Hi,

I have some python code that I want to invoke a call (or an API endpoint in my code) or just call a python script every T time?

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You can run some code on some interval using threads (python - Run certain code every n seconds - Stack Overflow)

import threading

def printit():
  threading.Timer(5.0, printit).start()
  print "Hello, World!"

printit()

Or if you want to run an entire script every t seconds you type this in the shell:
while sleep <t seconds here>; do python <path to script here>; done

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(You can stop it by pressing ctrl+c)

Is that what you were looking for?

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I guess that can work.

I need it to run every Friday, and I figured cron would be the easiest way to do it

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Maybe make the repl only start on fridays and run its thing once each friday, then set up lots of cron jobs to send a request to it each Friday

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GitHub Actions would be more suitable for this