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 :-)
The Readthedocs site is outdated: 0.4.2 and 0.4.3 are not listed while they are here in
docs/changelog.rst
.Took me a browse through the repo to find out :)