[Twisted-Python] watch a directory (Win32)

Andrew Bennetts andrew-twisted at puzzling.org
Tue Mar 8 06:27:04 EST 2005


On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:27:35AM +0100, Henning.Ramm at mediapro-gmbh.de wrote:
[...]
> 
> I'd prefer a portable way (my script could also run on AIX or MacOS X),
> but as far as I found, it's heavily system dependent (Win32:
> win32file.FindFirstChangeNotification, BSD/OSX: kqueue?, Linux: dnotify?)

I haven't tried using it with Twisted (yet), but something like the python
bindings for gamin would probably be a good start.  It can use the new
inotify stuff in Linux, or do simple polling.
    http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/index.html

-Andrew.





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