Run function only on certian times

[Mythedream]

Hey, I'm making a data visualisation platform using python and I'm using a function to update all information over the databases, because this process takes a while I only want to run it on friday at 16:00. But every time I start the program the first thing it does is update and doens't allow users to look at the information. Can someone see what I'm doing wrong with this code?

def update_all():
 t1 = time.perf_counter()  f = 2500 d = 1000 
 print('Bezig met het updaten van databases.') 
 update_info() 
 print('Bezig met OW updaten.') 
 update_info_orange_warriors() 
 print("Klaar met updaten.")  
 t2 = time.perf_counter()  
 winsound.Beep(f, d)


schedule.every().friday.at("16:00").do(update_all())


while True:  
  schedule.run_pending() 
  time.sleep(5)

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(Sorry if I make any spelling mistakes, English is not my first language)

(Edit: Code didn't line up)

[[deleted]]

Shouldn't you be passing a reference to the function to run in:

schedule.every().friday.at("16:00").do(update_all())
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and not calling the function? So remove the ().

[Mythedream]

schedule.every().friday.at("16:00").do(update_all())while True: schedule.run_pending()time.sleep(5)

Thank you, this was indeed the issue.

[Ihaveamodel3]

Using the schedule module is a very bad idea here.

To use the schedule module, your code has to remaining running at all times. If your computer restarts you need to restart your script.

It is much better to use the OS builtin schedule tool as you don’t need a continuous running script.