En Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:56:52 -0300, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> I've got a requirement to check a file for a change every 10 seconds or > so, > and if the file has been modified since the last time I parsed its > content > into the application then I need to parse it in again. However, I need > this > process to not interrupt the rest of my application flow. See this article by Tim Golden: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/watch_directory_for_changes.html > What is the best way to handle this? Is there some form of file watcher > module for python which can watch the file for me and then parse any > changes > into the application memory? Or should I be spawning and unjoined thread > which contains and infinite loop which checks a date/time the file was > modified against an internal date/time variable for when the application > last parsed the file into memory? I would use a different thread waiting for notifications from ReadDirectoryChangesW (third option in the link above) See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365465.aspx for more info on ReadDirectoryChangesW -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
