How to automate python scripts on a web apache server

Question

I want to create an automatic script in python that will inform me with an email when a new order is placed on my website. So far, I found I can use cronjobs from the apache server every minute, but it seems to be overkill since I don't get orders every minute.

So I'm looking for a better solution.

Answer 1

Here’s the code you can call this code whenever the order is placed by the user you don’t need to automate

If you are using django you can use this:

from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail(
    'Subject here',
    'Here is the message.',
    'from@example.com',
    ['to@example.com'],
    fail_silently=False,
)

Without django you can use this :

import smtplib

sender = 'from@example.com'
receivers = ['to@example.com']

message = “This is a test e-mail message."

try:
   smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
   smtpObj.sendmail(sender, receivers, message)         
   print "Successfully sent email"
except SMTPException:
   print "Error: unable to send email"