Filesystem events monitoring
Project description
Watchdog
========
Python API to monitor file system events.
Example Usage:
--------------
<pre>import sys
import time
from watchdog import Observer
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
class MyEventHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):
def catch_all_handler(self, event):
logging.debug(event)
def on_moved(self, event):
self.catch_all_handler(event)
def on_created(self, event):
self.catch_all_handler(event)
def on_deleted(self, event):
self.catch_all_handler(event)
def on_modified(self, event):
self.catch_all_handler(event)
event_handler = MyEventHandler()
observer = Observer()
observer.schedule('a-unique-name', event_handler, *sys.argv[1:])
observer.start()
try:
while True:
time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
observer.unschedule('a-unique-name')
observer.stop()
observer.join()</pre>
Introduction:
-------------
Watchdog lets your Python programs monitor filesystem events as
portably as possible using:
* inotify on Linux
* FSEvents on Mac OS X
* Windows API on Windows.
* polling as a fallback mechanism
Dependencies:
-------------
1. pywin32 (only on Windows)
2. pyinotify (only on Linux)
3. XCode or gcc (only on Mac OS X)
Licensing:
----------
Watchdog is licensed under the terms of the
[MIT License](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
========
Python API to monitor file system events.
Example Usage:
--------------
<pre>import sys
import time
from watchdog import Observer
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
class MyEventHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):
def catch_all_handler(self, event):
logging.debug(event)
def on_moved(self, event):
self.catch_all_handler(event)
def on_created(self, event):
self.catch_all_handler(event)
def on_deleted(self, event):
self.catch_all_handler(event)
def on_modified(self, event):
self.catch_all_handler(event)
event_handler = MyEventHandler()
observer = Observer()
observer.schedule('a-unique-name', event_handler, *sys.argv[1:])
observer.start()
try:
while True:
time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
observer.unschedule('a-unique-name')
observer.stop()
observer.join()</pre>
Introduction:
-------------
Watchdog lets your Python programs monitor filesystem events as
portably as possible using:
* inotify on Linux
* FSEvents on Mac OS X
* Windows API on Windows.
* polling as a fallback mechanism
Dependencies:
-------------
1. pywin32 (only on Windows)
2. pyinotify (only on Linux)
3. XCode or gcc (only on Mac OS X)
Licensing:
----------
Watchdog is licensed under the terms of the
[MIT License](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
