Write cron business logic as a Python class and let this app do the rest! It enables Django projects to schedule cron tasks, tracks their success / failures, manages contention (via a cache) etc. Basically takes care of all the boring work for you :-)
Is possible to make PR to this fork https://github.com/wellbridgehealth/django-cron/commit/34e166a345ef9f5ec7aa128cabcfeb0af6ff1640 implementing this feature?