APScheduler ID not found?

Question

Can date scheduled jobs have IDS? I don't know what I am doing wrong but whenever I run this code, I get the error:

apscheduler.jobstores.base.JobLookupError: 'No job by the id of item_last_run was found'

from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

scheduler = BackgroundScheduler(timezone="America/New_York")

message = "test"
def display_message():
    print(message)
    scheduler.remove_job('item_last_run')

scheduler_date = datetime.now() + timedelta(seconds = 3 )

print(f"\n\n***********SCHEDULED JOB FOR {scheduler_date}")
scheduler.add_job(display_message, 'date', run_date=scheduler_date, id='item_last_run')
scheduler.start()

Answer 1

Try to put a time.sleep() before calling the remove_job() function. I had the same issue and added a time.sleep(1) before it actually worked.