Best way to schedule task in Django, without Celery

Question

Im looking for relatively simple and lightweight way to setup primitive DB maintain tasks for Django-based web-site. Celery seems for me like overkill.
In my mind its now looking like making custom Django management command, and putting in in cron.
Maybe some could suggest better method?

Answer 1

django-extensions has a jobs-scheduling function that would work well for DB maintenance tasks. You still would rely on cron entries to actually run them though.

But then again, just doing a management command from cron is perfectly reasonable.