""" Demonstrates how to use the Tornado compatible scheduler to schedule a job that executes on 3 second intervals. """ from datetime import datetime import os from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop from apscheduler.schedulers.tornado import TornadoScheduler def tick(): print('Tick! The time is: %s' % datetime.now()) if __name__ == '__main__': scheduler = TornadoScheduler() scheduler.add_job(tick, 'interval', seconds=3) scheduler.start() print('Press Ctrl+{0} to exit'.format('Break' if os.name == 'nt' else 'C')) # Execution will block here until Ctrl+C (Ctrl+Break on Windows) is pressed. try: IOLoop.instance().start() except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit): pass