everytime - Schedule python asyncio coroutines

TLDR

@every.other.wednesday.at("12:00")
async def do_something():
    ...

Full Example

from everytime import every
import everytime

@every(5).seconds
async def greet():
    print("Hello")

everytime.run_forever()

Install

Link to PyPi

pip install everytime

How to schedule coroutines

everytime expressions as decorators

All everytime expressions can be used as function decorators.

@every(5).seconds
async def greet():
    print("Hello")

@schedule

Alternatively, you can wrap the everytime expression into a call to @schedule.

@schedule(every(5).seconds)
async def greet():
    print("Hello")

This allows you to pass custom datetime iterables to @schedule (see Schedule custom times).

Schedule custom times

@schedule accepts datetime iterables. The following schedules work:

@schedule([datetime.fromisoformat('2022-11-01T12:00:00'), datetime.fromisoformat('2023-01-01T12:00:00')])

@schedule(itertools.islice(every.day, 5))

@schedule(map(lambda _: datetime.now() + timedelta(seconds=1), sys.stdin))

do()

If you prefer to keep your function definitions and scheduling rules separate, use the do-function.

async def greet():
    print("Hello")

every(5).seconds.do(greet)

Supported Expressions

Quantification

Every time unit can be quantified by every, every.other or every(n):

• every.second
• every.other.second
• every(5).seconds

Supported time units

The supported time units are

• millisecond
• second
• minute
• hour
• day
• week

Weekdays

Also, weekdays monday through sunday are supported. every.wednesday starts on the next Wednesday. If today is a Wednesday, every.wednesday starts today.

Specific time of the day

day and the weekdays can be scheduled for a specific time of the day:

every.day.at("12:15")

(Note that hour is 24-hour based)

Event Loops

everytime uses asyncio and schedules coroutines on an event loop.

Default Behavior

By default, all coroutines are scheduled on the same event loop. After all schedules are set, the loop must be invoked with everytime.run_forever()

@schedule(every.second)
async def greet():
    print("Hello")

everytime.run_forever()

Async Environment

If called in an async environment (i.e. there is already an event loop running), coroutines are scheduled on asyncio.get_running_loop().

async def main():
    @schedule(every.second)
    async def greet():
        print("Hello")

    await asyncio.sleep(10)

asyncio.run(main())

Note, that the scheduling only works while the loop is running. In this case, greet will only be called every second, while main is still running.

Custom Event Loops

You can schedule your coroutines to run on a custom event loop by passing an optional argument loop to@schedule or do().

l = asyncio.new_event_loop()

@schedule(every.second, loop=l)
async def greet():
    print("Hello")

l.run_forever()

l = asyncio.new_event_loop()

async def greet():
    print("Hello")

every.second.do(greet, loop=l)
l.run_forever()