How to watch a directory for changes?

python filesystemwatcher
Gnu Engineer picture Gnu Engineer · Jan 16, 2011 · Viewed 65.4k times · Source

Could not find anything in python core to do this. Can anyone recommend a library or "battery" to do this? Ideally I would like this to be portable but it's OK if it is available only for Unix (my server).

Answer

pyfunc picture pyfunc · Jan 16, 2011

On Linux, you could be interested in pyinotify

  1. https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify

Other related libraries:

  1. http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/python.html
  2. Python FAM interface: http://python-fam.sourceforge.net/
  3. http://gorakhargosh.github.com/watchdog/

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