Thanks for your time Gabriel, That certainly looks to be the type of thing that I'm looking to achieve, however, I forgot to mention I'm running this on a Linux platform and not a Win32 one :-( Sorry.
I'm sure similar things are achievable, I've used os.stat before now to get the time stamp for when a file was last changed, if I perhaps combine this with the while 1: inside a thread I can achieve the same end result? Sound like a good idea? I just wasn’t sure how safe it was to spawn a thread like this which contains an infinite loop. Thanks again for your time, Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabriel Genellina Sent: 22 October 2007 15:29 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Check File Change Every 10 Seconds 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
