This tutorial deals with showing how to schedule tasks using APScheduler in Django and not with real basics of Python or Django.

Okay, let's start

Installing APScheduler:

Run the following command in the terminal:

pip install apscheduler

Setting up APScheduler:

Let's consider the app is named room.

Adding something_update.py to our app directory:

This is how your room/something_update.py should look:

def update_something():
    print("this function runs every 10 seconds")

Adding updater.py to our app directory:

This is how your room/updater.py should look:

from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
from .something_update import update_something


def start():
    scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
    scheduler.add_job(update_something, 'interval', seconds=10)
    scheduler.start()

Starting the Updater:

This is how your room/apps.py should look:

from django.apps import AppConfig


class RoomConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'room'

    def ready(self):
        from . import updater
        updater.start()

Thank you, that's it for this tutorial.