aiocron

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aiocron - Crontabs for asyncio
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Usage
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``aiocron`` provide a decorator to run function at time::

    >>> import aiocron
    >>> import asyncio
    >>>
    >>> @aiocron.crontab('*/30 * * * *')
    ... async def attime():
    ...     print('run')
    ...
    >>> asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()

You can also use it as an object::

    >>> @aiocron.crontab('1 9 * * 1-5', start=False)
    ... async def attime():
    ...     print('run')
    ...
    >>> attime.start()
    >>> asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()

Your function still be available at ``attime.func``

You can also await a crontab. In this case, your coroutine can accept
arguments::

    >>> @aiocron.crontab('0 9,10 * * * mon,fri', start=False)
    ... async def attime(i):
    ...     print('run %i' % i)
    ...
    >>> async def once():
    ...     try:
    ...         res = await attime.next(1)
    ...     except Exception as e:
    ...         print('It failed (%r)' % e)
    ...     else:
    ...         print(res)
    ...
    >>> asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()

Finally you can use it as a sleep coroutine. The following will wait until
next hour::

    >>> await crontab('0 * * * *').next()

If you don't like the decorator magic you can set the function by yourself::

    >>> cron = crontab('0 * * * *', func=yourcoroutine, start=False)

Notice that unlike standard unix crontab you can specify seconds at the 6th
position.

``aiocron`` use `croniter <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/croniter>`_. Refer to
it's documentation to know more about crontab format.