[solutionyogi]

I worked at a company which wrote their own scheduler and it was fraught with bugs. Dealing with time and date is HARD. Really, really hard. Your custom scheduler will break and at a worst possible time.

If Cron doesn't work, get an open source or commercial solution. And who cares what tech the scheduler is written in? Scheduler's job is to provide run your programs and provide API and a nice GUI if you desire.

[jokh]

Yeah exactly. I don't understand why they wanted the scheduler to be written in Python, since the scheduler should be decoupled from the jobs they are running anyway.

[alexeiz]

If your jobs are written in Python, there is nothing wrong with a Python-based scheduler. It can actually be quite convenient.