ochoto/pyinotify

Pyinotify is a pure Python module used for monitoring filesystems events on Linux platforms with inotify.

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Pyinotify

License : MIT
Project URL : http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify
Project Wiki : http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/wiki
API Documentation: http://seb-m.github.com/pyinotify

Dependencies

Linux ≥ 2.6.13
Python ≥ 2.4

Install

Install from the distributed tarball

# Choose your Python interpreter: either python, python2.6, python3.1,..
# Replacing XXX accordingly, type:
$ sudo pythonXXX setup.py install

Or install it with `easy_install` (currently seems to be available only for Python2)

# Install easy_install
  $ sudo apt-get install setuptools
# Or alternatively, this way
  $ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
  $ sudo python ez_setup.py
# Finally, install Pyinotify
$ sudo easy_install pyinotify

Watch a directory

Install pyinotify and run this command from a shell:

$ python -m pyinotify -v /my-dir-to-watch