"Robert Rawlins - Think Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
If it's just one file, then yes, stat it in a loop with os.sleep. If you want to do something fancier like watch the appearance and disappearance of files in a directory, use the inotify system: http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list