tornado-crontab is a library that can make the task apps like crontab.

Automatic installation:

$ pip install tornado-crontab

torando-crontab is listed in PyPI and can be installed with pip or easy_install.

Manual installation:

$ git clone https://github.com/gaujin/tornado-crontab.git
$ cd tornado-crontab
$ python setup.py install

tornado-crontab source code is hosted on GitHub

Here is an example every minute task app:

from __future__ import print_function
import functools
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado_crontab

def hello_crontab(value):

    print("Hello, {0}".format(value))

if __name__ == "__main__":

    _func = functools.partial(hello_crontab, *["crontab"])
    tornado_crontab.CronTabCallback(_func, "* * * * *").start()
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

decorator style task app:

from __future__ import print_function
import tornado.ioloop
from tornado_crontab import crontab

@crontab("* * * * *")
def hello_crontab(value):

    print("Hello, {0}".format(value))

if __name__ == "__main__":

    hello_crontab("crontab")
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

• Tornado
• crontab

• tornado-crontab license under the MIT license.
• Tornado is licensed under the Apache license.
• crontab is licensed under the LGPL license version 2.1.

See the LICENSE file for specific terms.