Matt Nordhoff <mnordh...@mattnordhoff.com> writes: > Jason Sewall wrote: >> FWIW, GNU tail on Linux uses inotify for tail -f: >> >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/tail.c >> >> The wikipedia page for inotify lists several python bindings: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify >> >> Not much help for non-Linux users, but there it is. Too bad, because >> inotify is pretty cool. >> >> Jason > > Some other operating systems have similar facilities, e.g. FSEvents on OS X.
Yeah, and there's a similar kind of thing in the windows api. A nice python project would be a cross-platform solution that presented a uniform api and just did the right thing behind the scenes on each OS. (Incidentally on linux you need to watch out for the value of /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches - if you're using inotify in anger it's easy to exceed the default set by a lot of distributions.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
