Micah put my del.icio.us daily links tool to immediate use on his blog. He uncovered a bug in the character handling, which is now fixed in the posted amara_delicious.py file.
I usually invoke the script from cron, but Micah asked if there was an alternative. I've been meaning to hack up a poor man's cron for PyBlosxom and this gave me an additional push. The result is task_control.py.
A sort of poor man's cron for PyBlosxom, this plug-in allows you to specify tasks (as Python scripts) to be run only at certain intervals Each time the plug-in is invoked it checks a set of tasks and the last time they were run. It runs only those that have not been run within the specified interval.
To run the Amara del.icio.us daily links script once a day, you would add the following to your config file:
py["tasks"] = {"/usr/local/bin/amara_delicious.py": 24*60*60}
py["task_control_file"] = py['datadir'] + "/task_control.dat"You could of course have multiple script/interval mappings in the
"tasks" dict. The scripts are run with variables request and config
set, so, for example, if running from task_control.py, you could change
the line of amara_delicious.py from
BASEDIR = '/srv/www/ogbuji.net/copia/pyblosxom/datadir'
to
BASEDIR = config['datadir']