One thing I hate about Linux: cron

ksamuel May 23, 2012 Reply

This is why in a pure Python env celerybeat + supervisord does the job much better:

CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE = {
    # Executes every Monday morning at 7:30 A.M
    "every-monday-morning": {
        "task": "tasks.add",
        "schedule": crontab(hour=7, minute=30, day_of_week=1),
        "args": (16, 16),
    },
}

It's pure python, it runs python fonctions and it's explicit. But it does require additional setup.

http://ask.github.com/celery/userguide/periodic-tasks.html