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Installing the Latest Python Version on Ubuntu 23.10, Mint 21.3

  •   March 27, 2024


Mint, Ubuntu, and Python splash
It's no secret that the python3 repository package is always a few versions behind the Python Software Foundation's current main release. At my time of writing, I am using Linux Mint 21.3 and running python3 --version reveals that I'm using v3.10.12 while Python's current main release is v3.12.2.
So how can you install the latest stable Python version on Ubuntu or Mint?
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Asynchronous Scheduling with APScheduler

  •   Sept. 19, 2023
Johnson City, TN, US


APScheduler interaction diagram
Overview
 
Scheduling tasks is a necessity in system administration and application development. There are a variety of techniques and libraries for scheduling tasks and depending on the use case, a particular technique or library may be preferred. Advanced Python Scheduler (APScheduler) offers thread-safe schedulers with configurable triggers for Cron-like scheduling, delayed scheduling of single-run jobs, and interval-based scheduling. While the descriptor advanced might carry the connotation hard to use, APScheduler's …
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