Schedule Python Heroku app to delete files in a FTP server

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Deleting old files in a server is one of the oldest and most basic administrative tasks. Usually this is accomplished using a scheduled task or a CRON job which will execute a script to assess the old files in a location and delete them. In this blog post we are going to see how we can execute a python script on a schedule from a cloud location.