Run in the background

Out of the box it is not possible to run the schedule in the background. However, you can create a thread yourself and use it to run jobs without blocking the main thread. This is an example of how you could do this:

import threading import time import schedule def run_continuously(interval=1):  """Continuously run, while executing pending jobs at each  elapsed time interval.  @return cease_continuous_run: threading. Event which can  be set to cease continuous run. Please note that it is  *intended behavior that run_continuously() does not run  missed jobs*. For example, if you've registered a job that  should run every minute and you set a continuous run  interval of one hour then your job won't be run 60 times  at each interval but only once.  """ cease_continuous_run = threading.Event() class ScheduleThread(threading.Thread): @classmethod def run(cls): while not cease_continuous_run.is_set(): schedule.run_pending() time.sleep(interval) continuous_thread = ScheduleThread() continuous_thread.start() return cease_continuous_run def background_job(): print('Hello from the background thread') schedule.every().second.do(background_job) # Start the background thread stop_run_continuously = run_continuously() # Do some other things... time.sleep(10) # Stop the background thread stop_run_continuously.set()