Question

I wrote a script.py collecting data from the web from monday to friday. The script is usually executed from another script in the main function. I want it to close on friday and open monday automatically, and run from monday to friday.

At the moment I am obliged to run it manually every monday.
I wrote some code to stop it automatically on fridays. Basically it looks like this

import sys
import time

if strftime("%a %H:%M", gmtime()) != "Fri 20:00":
    ...code...
else:
    sys.exit()

how to run the main script permanently and open the other script automatically when needed? hep me to improve this please thanks.

EDIT actually I will reformulate the question:

Is there a proper way to run prermanently a script, besides doing:

while 1!=0:
    ...code here

Answer 1

Do you have any option to automatically schedule the program to start on mondays, with cron or windows task scheduler?

Alternatley, you could write a separate program that runs permanently and controlls the startup and/or shutdown of the script.py.