On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Saran Ahluwalia <ahlusar.ahluwa...@gmail.com> writes: >> cross-platform... >> * Monitors a folder for files that are dropped throughout the day > > I don't see a cross-platform way to do that other than by waking up and > scanning the folder every so often (once a minute, say). The Linux way > is with inotify and there's a Python module for it (search terms: python > inotify). There might be comparable but non-identical interfaces for > other platforms.
All too often, "cross-platform" means probing for one option, then another, then another, and using whichever one you can. On Windows, there's FindFirstChangeNotification and ReadDirectoryChanges, which Tim Golden wrote about, and which I coded up into a teleporter for getting files out of a VM automatically: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/watch_directory_for_changes.html https://github.com/Rosuav/shed/blob/master/senddir.py ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
