Trying to run a python script from ubuntu crontab

Question

Hey I am running into an issue when trying to run a cron job with a python script from ubuntu. This is what I have done:

1.) Wrote a simple tkinter app: source for

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you expect to happen here. The cronjob won't have access to a display where it can display the GUI, so the button will never be displayed, so print_this will never be run

FWIW, when I tried to run your code I got an error:

  File "./t.py", line 4
    def __init__(self,parent):
      ^
IndentationError: expected an indented block

Not sure if that's just caused by copy/paste into the page or if it's a real problem with your code.