[SOLVED] Python scheduling a job starting every weekday and running every hour

Python scheduling a job starting every weekday and running every hour

I currently have a sample code defined as:

import schedule
import time

def job(t):
    print ("I'm working...", t)
    return

schedule.every().day.at("01:00").do(job,'It is 01:00')

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(60) # wait one minute

I am looking to however run the code every hour on weekdays from 9AM to 4PM. i.e. every day Monday through Friday I want to run the code at 9AM, 10AM, ..., 3PM, 4PM.

Reading the documentation for schedule it seems that I can run the code individually Monday through Friday but not only weekday between two specified times.

Also, shouldn't the following time.sleep(60) make the code run perpetually?

Solution

You can use library APScheduler. For example:

from apscheduler.schedulers.blocking import BlockingScheduler

def job_function():
    print("Hello World")

sched = BlockingScheduler()

# Runs from Monday to Friday at 5:30 (am) until
sched.add_job(job_function, 'cron', day_of_week='mon-fri', hour=5, minute=30)
sched.start()