[Toolserver-l] Scheduling a pywikipedia bot

[Diego Grez]

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I never figured out of to get pywikipedia to run automatically, and now my
shell throws me a "disk quota exceeded" message. ¬¬

Diego

2011/4/22 MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com>

> Junaid P V wrote:
> > I am trying to schedule a pywikipedia bot, but could not do it..
> >
> > I get the error:
> > import wikipedia
> > ImportError: No module named wikipedia
> >
> > How can I specify working directory for the program. I googled and tried
> > several arguments but not worked.
> > (It is first time I try to schedule a job)
> >
> > Could someone help me?
>
> What are you using to "schedule" the bot? cron? You probably just need to
> set your PYTHONPATH somewhere.
>
> For pywikipedia, this means that if your pywikipedia directory is at
> /home/user/scripts/pywikipedia, you'd put something like this in cron:
>
> 0 1 2 3 4 PYTHONPATH=$HOME/scripts/pywikipedia python $HOME/vandalize.py
>
> If you're using qsub, you can set PYTHONPATH in an .environment file in
> your
> home directory.
>
> There might be a purely Pythonic way to do this as well. Just google around
> a bit and you should be able to figure it out.
>
> MZMcBride
>
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