Unable to associate time pattern with minutes.

[swateek]

I want a job to run every 5th minute, like 10:00..10:05..10:10

When I tried the below code, it throws up an assertion error.

schedule.every().minute.at('00:05').do(job)

Currently as a work around, am running it every minute and checking in my code if its the 5th minute of hour. Is there a nicer way to do it via schedule?

[Yonodactyl]

Hey swateek, I hope I can provide some insight here.
From my understanding, you want to run the job at hand every 5 minutes so the correct formatting for this would look like:

schedule.every(5).minutes.do(job)

The at definition allows you to schedule the job every Nth day according to the documentation:

def at(self, time_str):
        
        Schedule the job every day at a specific time.

        Calling this is only valid for jobs scheduled to run
        every N day(s).

[Bastian82]

Assertion says:

assert self.unit in ('days', 'hours') or self.start_day

I tested it and it works for hours aswell:
schedule.every(1).hours.at(00:33).do(job)

[swateek]

@Yonodactyl when we say every 5 minutes, let's say the process starts at 10:07, the next run would be at 10:12.. right?

What I want is irrespective of whatever time it starts (10:07 in this case), the job should run at 10:10, 10:15 and so on..

[swateek]

@Bastian82 that piece of code would run the job once every hour. I do have a job that works that way.. with the "at" function.

Can you write a similar code to run every 05th minute of hours (like 10:10, 10:15, 10:20, etc.)?

[Bastian82]

@Bastian82 that piece of code would run the job once every hour. I do have a job that works that way.. with the "at" function.

Can you write a similar code to run every 05th minute of hours (like 10:10, 10:15, 10:20, etc.)?

Yes, this will run code every 33th minute of every hour:
schedule.every(1).hours.at(00:33).do(job)

As i said it is stated in assertion i mentioned above