simple_notify

A simple python-inotify wrapper

https://github.com/gfxmonk/simple_notify **Note**: I have discontinued development of simple_notify, in favour of using the cross-platform `watchdog` library: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog Example: import simple_notify def on_change(event): print "event " + event.event + " occurred to " + event.path watcher = simple_notify.watch("/tmp", callback=on_change) raw_input("press enter to quit...") ----- watch() spawns a new thread that will watch for inotify events and call your callback function. Directories are tracked recursively, so when watching "/tmp" you would see everything that happens in /tmp and any of its subdirectories Your callback receives as its single argument an Event instance. Event instances have the following fields: - path: path to file (relative to the watched root) - base: relative path to directory containing this node (from watch root) - name: name of this node - exists: (boolean) whether the file in this event now exists. False for REMOVED and MOVED_FROM events, True for ADDED, MODIFIED and MOVED_TO events - is_dir: boolean You can pass `ignore_modifications=True` to `watch` if you don't wish to be nodified of file modification events (merely additions, removals and moves).