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		gtuckerkellogg on June 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plan – Cron jobs in Python I can see one use case for this family of tools: if the same script could generate either crontab files or launchd agents, so it could generate scheduling files for MacOSX, where crontab is discouraged.

falcolas on June 11, 2014 [–]

MacOSX uses launchd as its crontab, but it retains the crontab interface.

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