Schedule Python Script - Windows 7

Schedule Python Script - Windows 7

You can do it in the command line as follows:

schtasks /Create /SC HOURLY /TN PythonTask /TR "PATH_TO_PYTHON_EXE PATH_TO_PYTHON_SCRIPT"

That will create an hourly task called 'PythonTask'. You can replace HOURLY with DAILY, WEEKLY etc.
PATH_TO_PYTHON_EXE will be something like: C:\python25\python.exe. Check out more examples by writing this in the command line:

schtasks /?

Otherwise you can open the Task Scheduler and do it through the GUI.
Hope this helps.

How to schedule code execution in Python?

There are some ways to do this , but the best way is using 'schedule' package, i guess

However, in the first step install the package :

pip install schedule

And then use it in your code like the following codes :

import schedule

schedule.every().day.at("10:00").do(yourFunctionToDo,'It is 10:00')

Windows 7 Task Scheduler

Not sure how to do it properly through the GUI, but see here for a nice solution involving the schtasks command.

How can I run a cmd script while my computer is off?

There's no way to run anything on your computer with it powered off.

You could set up a low-cost Linux VPS with any cloud compute provider (AWS, DigitalOcean, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Vultr, etc.), migrate your python program to it, and schedule that program to run every 15 minutes on there.

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You would need to keep that VPS turned on, and in place of Task Scheduler, you could schedule your Python program to run (with any arguments) as a cron job.

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Scheduling a Python Script via Windows Task Scheduler

1. Don't just launch 7z. Provide the full path to the executable.

   cmd = [r'C:\Program Files\7zip\7z.exe', 'a', zip_file_name, src_directory, '-mx9']
   Would work, considering that C:\Program Files\7zip\7z.exe is the executable path.

2. Try not running the python process with the script as an argument. Run the python script itself.

3. Your zip_file_name is relative. I'm not sure the argument is a filename. It may be a path. In that case, the .7z file may be created on C:\Windows\System32. To fix it, set zip_file_name to be a full path.

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