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 :-)
Coverage remained the same at 91.213% when pulling a6270997f14570c5dd52721ff036a4630d6b8a69 on palfrey:new-travis into 7fa5c2d2835520d8c920f3c103937ab292d9e545 on Tivix:master.
Working Travis build is at https://travis-ci.org/github/Tivix/django-cron/builds/698277551 (but doesn't appear to be marked on this PR, as the integration is broken)