Having trouble with Windows Task Scheduler, and didn't find a solution browsing through other questions. We've got several Python Scripts running via Task Scheduler that are all running just fine, but there's one in particular that just won't run.
The "Run whether use is logged in or not" box is checked, as well as the "Run with highest privileges" box, as it is with the ones that are working.
In the Start Program box I have "C:\Program Files\Python310\python.exe" and in the Add Arguments box I have C:\Users\<user>\<dir1>\<dir2>\script.py.
Using cmd, the following runs the program and generates the file I want perfectly, which is just the exact same things as above.
"C:\Program Files\Python310\python.exe" C:\Users\<user>\<dir1>\<dir2>\script.py
I've tried changing the location of the python interpreter, using a different interpreter version, using task scheduler to run CMD first with the above as arguments, and nothing seems to do it.
On every attempt, I get the following:
Task Started (1)
Action started (1)
Action completed (2)
Task completed (2)
And every time this happens, the script hasn't actually run. I even copy/pasted my the bits in task scheduler into CMD to make sure I didn't overlook a typo or something like that.
Thanks in advance!
I have a GUI based.exe, which I made using Python auto-py-to-exe (one folder method), and I want the application to run up after every 10 minutes or so.
It is working when I click on it manually.
I have tried using task scheduler in windows to do that, but it is not exactly executing the application as I cannot see anything on screen. Any ideas how to do it?
Not answering directly the question but maybe still solving your problems. To run python scripts on schedule i usually write a .bat script that gets executed by task scheduler.
The bat script has to have the full length python path for the invocation and the full path of the .py file.
I think it's possible to use the same strategy to run exe files, so you could try using a .bat that targets your exe instead of targetting the exe directly in the task scheduler.
I would like to run a python script every day in my EC2 Linux instance. My idea is to run my python script with time.sleep()at the end and detach the screen using screen Linux command. Is there a more efficient way to do this?
If you're looking to run a command at a specific time each day take a look at crontab. By using this you can set a schedule for when the script should run.
If you do have any output for the script then make sure that you pipe it to a log file.
You can use a cron job to execute your script at a given time. Take a look at a guide here.
I know how to set-up run configurations to pass parameters to a specific python script. There are several entry points, I don't want a run configuration for each one do I? What I want to do instead is launch a python script from a command line shell script and be able to attach the PyCharm debugger to the python script that is executed and have it stop at break points. I've tried to use a pre-launch condition of a utility python script that will sleep for 10 seconds so I can attempt to "attach to process" of the python script. That didn't work. I tried to import pdb and settrace to see if that would stop it for attaching to the process, but that looks to be command line debugging specific only. Any clues would be appreciated.
Thanks!
You can attach the debugger to a python process launched from terminal:
Use Menu Tools --> Attach to process then select python process to debug.
If you want to debug a file installed in site-packages you may need to open the file from its original location.
You can to pause the program manually from debugger and inspect the suspended Thread to find your source file.
Not sure if anyone has run into this, but I'll take suggestions for troubleshooting and/or alternative methods.
I have a Windows 2008 server on which I am running several scheduled tasks. One of those tasks is a python script that uses pscp to log into a linux box, checks for new files and if there is anything new, copies them down to a local directory on the C: drive. I've put some logging into the script at key points as well and I'm using logging.basicConfig(level=DEBUG).
I built the command using a variable, command = 'pscp -pw xxxx name#ip:/ c:\local_dir' and then I use subprocess.call(command) to execute the command.
Now here's the weird part. If I run the script manually from the command line, it works fine. New files are downloaded and processed. However, if the Task Scheduler runs the script, no new files are downloaded. The script is running under the same user, but yet yields different results.
According to the log files created by the script and on the linux box, the script successfully logs into the linux box. However, no files are downloaded despite there being new files. Again, when I run it via the command line, files are downloaded.
Any ideas? suggestions, alternative methods?
Thanks.
You can use the windows Task Scheduler, but make sure the "optional" field "Start In" is filled in.
In the Task Scheduler app, add an action that specifies your python file to run "doSomeWork" and fill in the Start in (optional) input with the directory that contains the file.. So for example if you have a python file in:
C:\pythonProject\doSomeWork.py
You would enter:
Program/Script: doSomeWork.py
Start in (optional): C:\pythonProject
I had the same issue when trying to open an MS Access database on a Linux VM. Running the script at the Windows 7 command prompt worked but running it in Task Scheduler didn't. With Task Scheduler it would find the database and verify it existed but wouldn't return the tables within it.
The solution was to have Task Scheduler run cmd as the Program/Script with the arguments /c python C:\path\to\script.py (under Add arguments (optional)).
I can't tell you why this works but it solved my problem.
I'm having a similar issue. In testing I found that any type of call with subprocess stops the python script when run in task scheduler but works fine when run on the command line.
import subprocess
print('Start')
test = subprocess.check_output(["dir"], shell=True)
print('First call finished')
When run on command line this outputs:
Start
First call finished
When run from task scheduler the output is:
Start
In order to get the output from task scheduler I run the python script from a batch file as follows:
python test.py >> log.txt
I run the script through the batch file both on command line and through task scheduler.
Brad's answer is right. Subprocess needs the shell context to work and the task manager can launch python without that. Another way to do it is to make a batch file that is launched by the task scheduler that calls python c:\path\to\script.py etc. The only difference to this is that if you run into a script that has a call to os.getcwd() you will always get the root where the script is but you get something else when you make the call to cmd from task scheduler.
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After experiments... If you put there full path to python program it works without highest privileges (as admin). Meaning task settings like this:
program: "C:\Program Files\Python37\python.exe"
arguments: "D:\folder\folder\python script.py"
I have no idea why, but it works even if script uses subprocess and multiple threads.
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What I did is I changed task settings: checked Run with highest privileges. And task started to work perfectly while running python [script path].
But keep in mind, that title contains "Administrator: " at the begining... always...
P.S. Thanks guys for pointing out that subprocess is a problem. It made me think of task settings.
I had similar problem when one script is running from Windows Task Scheduler, and another one doesn't.
Running cmd with python [script path] didn't work for me on Windows 8.1 Embedded x64. Not sure why. Probably because of necessity to have spaces in path and issue with quotes.
Hope my answer helps someone. ;)
Create a batch file add your python script in your batch file and then schedule that batch file .it will work .
Example : suppose your python script is in folder c:\abhishek\script\merun.py
first you have to go to directory by cd command .so your batch file would be like :
cd c:\abhishek\script
python merun.py
it work for me .
Just leaving this for posterity: A similar issue I faced was resolved by using the UNC (\10.x.xx.xx\Folder\xxx)path everywhere in my .bat and .py scripts instead of the letter assigned to the drive (\K:\Folder\xxx).
I had this issue before. I was able to run the task manually in Windows Task Scheduler, but not automatically. I remembered that there was a change in the time made by another user, maybe this change made the task scheduler to error out. I am not sure. Therefore, I created another task with a different name, for the same script, and the script worked automatically. Try to create a test task running the same script. Hopefully that works!
For Anaconda installation of python in windows below solution worked for me
create a batch file with below
"C:\Users\username\Anaconda3\condabin\activate" && python "script.py" &&
deactivate
Setup task to run this batch file