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Sched: a schedule inside a running process

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sched.scheduler orders events using a clock and delay function. It is useful inside a program with a defined lifetime.

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sched.scheduler orders events using a clock and delay function. It is useful inside a program with a defined lifetime. [1]

An in-memory schedule does not automatically survive a restart. Important work needs separate decisions about persistence, retries and missed deadlines. Adding an event is not proof that an external service will execute it after the program closes.

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  1. [1] sched — Event scheduler — Python 3.12.15 documentation ↗