apscheduler.schedulers.background

API

class apscheduler.schedulers.background.BackgroundScheduler(gconfig={}, **options)

Bases: BlockingScheduler

A scheduler that runs in the background using a separate thread (start() will return immediately).

Extra options:

daemon

Set the daemon option in the background thread (defaults to True, see the documentation for further details)

Introduction

BackgroundScheduler runs in a thread inside your existing application. Calling start() will start the scheduler and it will continue running after the call returns.

Default executor	PoolExecutor
External dependencies	none
Example	examples/schedulers/background.py (view online).