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From: Tim Harig on 25 Jun 2010 12:41
On 2010-06-25, Tim Harig <usernet(a)ilthio.net> wrote:
> It sounds to me, since your script is acting on an event, that it
> would benefit from using something like inotify, or whatever your
> system equivilant would be (FSEvents for Mac? FAM framework for general
> POSIX. There are python modules available.), so that your script can
> react when (and only when) it notices changes to the folder in question.

pynotify (Linux inotify):
http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify

FSEvents wrapper:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyobjc-framework-FSEvents/2.2b2

FAM:
C libraries and daemon:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fam/
Python wrapper:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-fam/

Similar functionality is available for other platforms; but, you will need
to look at the documentation for those platforms for information on how to
access it.
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