fsnotify

Simple python file watching with throttling when polling.

• Homepage: https://github.com/fabioz/fsnotify

Overview

The idea for this project is making the fastest possible polling-based file watching with throttling to avoid high CPU usage when polling.

Install

Requirements

fsnotify has been developed and tested on Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8

Install from PyPI

pip install fsnotify

This will pull and install the latest stable release from PyPI.

History

FSNotify 0.2.0

Paths to track may now be a List[TrackedPath], indicating whether each path should be tracked recursively or not.

FSNotify 0.1.6

First stable version. Should be able to properly do recursive file watching of all passed paths using throttling to avoid high CPU usage when polling