An implementation of Scheduler that catches jobs that fail. For use with https://github.com/dbader/schedule

safe_schedule.py

import logging
from traceback import format_exc
import datetime

from schedule import Scheduler


logger = logging.getLogger('schedule')


class SafeScheduler(Scheduler):
    """
    An implementation of Scheduler that catches jobs that fail, logs their
    exception tracebacks as errors, optionally reschedules the jobs for their
    next run time, and keeps going.

    Use this to run jobs that may or may not crash without worrying about
    whether other jobs will run or if they'll crash the entire script.
    """

    def __init__(self, reschedule_on_failure=True):
        """
        If reschedule_on_failure is True, jobs will be rescheduled for their
        next run as if they had completed successfully. If False, they'll run
        on the next run_pending() tick.
        """
        self.reschedule_on_failure = reschedule_on_failure
        super().__init__()

    def _run_job(self, job):
        try:
            super()._run_job(job)
        except Exception:
            logger.error(format_exc())
            if self.reschedule_on_failure:
                job.last_run = datetime.datetime.now()
                job._schedule_next_run()

test_safe_schedule.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import time
from safe_schedule import SafeScheduler


def good_task_1():
    print('Good Task 1')


def good_task_2():
    print('Good Task 2')


def good_task_3():
    print('Good Task 3')


def bad_task_1():
    print('Bad Task 1')
    print(1/0)


def bad_task_2():
    print('Bad Task 2')
    raise Exception('Something went wrong!')


scheduler = SafeScheduler()
scheduler.every(3).seconds.do(good_task_1)
scheduler.every(5).seconds.do(bad_task_1)
scheduler.every(7).seconds.do(good_task_2)
scheduler.every(8).seconds.do(bad_task_2)
scheduler.every(12).seconds.do(good_task_3)

while True:
    scheduler.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)