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Python Django Basics Django Templates List template

Pii Tiimii
Pii Tiimii
3,036 Points

How to make django run a function every period of time?

ex. refresh page every hour or add a row to database

Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

There is a separate app I discovered entitled "Django-cron".

http://django-cron.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html

It is not one of the "batteries included" in standard Django, but appears easy enough to include in a project.

A more full-featured addition is "Celery"

http://www.celeryproject.org/

JM