Schedule a job to run every 5 mins only on a particular day in python

Question

I want to run a cron job for every 5 mins only on a particular day of the week. I am using python schedule library and I can do these jobs individually. But how do I club them?

code

import schedule

def check():
    print('Checking')

schedule.every(10).monday.do(check)
while True: 
    # Checks whether a scheduled task is pending to run or not 
    schedule.run_pending() 

This gives an error IntervalError: Use mondays instead of monday when I try with mondays, I get an error AttributeError: 'Job' object has no attribute 'mondays' can someone help me with this.

Answer 1

I don't think the schedule package supports combinations of different time units the way you want. You can achieve what you want doing something like:

import schedule
import time
import datetime

def job():
    if datetime.datetime.today().weekday() == 0:
        print("I'm working...")

schedule.every(5).minutes.do(job)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

Maybe not the most elegant solution, though.

Answer 2

Did you try with "time"?

import time
...

schedule.every().monday.do(job)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(300)