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gvalkov on Oct 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Schedule – Python job scheduling for humans

I find it hard to appreciate these inventive types of API design. Something more traditional and boring, like Celery's crontab[1] or dateutils rrule[2] seem quite sufficient. For example:

   crontab(hour=18, minute=30, day_of_week='*')

[1]: http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-t...

[2]: https://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-470fa22b2db72000d7abe...

stavros on Oct 3, 2015 [–]

I'm not sure why, given two equally flexible designs, we should choose the least expressive. The fact that cron is sufficient doesn't mean I don't still have to google how to run things every three hours every second Monday, for example.

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