Gevent-compatible low-level inotify bindings based on inotifyx.
- Python 2 and 3 compatible
- Exposes a low-level inotify(7) API
- Allows to wait for events in a non-blocking way when using gevent.
$ pip install gevent_inotifyx
From source:
$ python setup.py install
To run the tests:
$ make test
Watch a directory while creating new files. This prints
event: test.txt IN_CLOSE|IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_ALL_EVENTS
every second:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import print_function
import os
import gevent
import gevent_inotifyx as inotify
def create_file_events():
"""Open and close a file to generate inotify events."""
while True:
with open('/tmp/test.txt', 'a'):
pass
gevent.sleep(1)
def watch_for_events():
"""Wait for events and print them to stdout."""
fd = inotify.init()
try:
wd = inotify.add_watch(fd, '/tmp', inotify.IN_CLOSE_WRITE)
while True:
for event in inotify.get_events(fd):
print("event:", event.name, event.get_mask_description())
finally:
os.close(fd)
if __name__ == '__main__':
tasks = [
gevent.spawn(watch_for_events),
gevent.spawn(create_file_events),
]
gevent.joinall(tasks)gevent_inotifyx is licensed under the MIT License. See the included file LICENSE for details.