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Setting up CRON via a python script without using external library

What is the best tool in computer that can do your job automatically and is something which otherwise, if not there would involve manual intervention? Life around computer is increasingly getting more complex with our lifestyle demanding more of automated work. Out of philosphy let's face it, we need tools that we can set up for doing tasks for us, run scripts for us whenever we want. When it comes to schedulers, it's like an alarm clock or a timer which goes of for whatever time we set it and then ensure we do our tasks. Now, in the world of Linux, we know this schedulers at system level as Cron. Cron is a system daemon which is used to execute desrired tasks (in the background) at specific designated time. It is used to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals. It typically automates system maintenance or administration Now, thinking of cron, it's a name we use, when we have to schedule a task. Now, I am