python script advanced scheduling

Question

I'm trying to do something really complicated. Using a Windows box, I'm try to get a script to run every half-an-hour, Mon-Fri, 9:00am-7:00pm, skipping certain dates I define as "holidays". I would love for Python to run this script itself. I've looked into 'apschedule', but can't seem to find the right options I need to do this. If not able to do this through Python, what other solutions can I look at?

By the way, as of right now, I'm running Python 3.3, but am willing to downgrade if necessary.

Answer 1

decorate your job-functions to skip the special days:

from datetime import date

def not_on(dates):
    def noop(): pass
    def decor(fn):
        if date.today() in dates:
            return noop
        else:
            return fn
    return decor


@not_on( ( date(2013, 03, 01), ) )
def job():
    print "yeah"

then just schedule your jobs for the regular dates and done. if the job is called on a special day the decorator will just skip execution.

just keep using apscheduler.