In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >i need to go into a directory to grab some files and do some >processing. >The thing is, i need to wait till the process that generates the files >in that directory to finish >before i can grab the files. eg if file A is being generated and has >not finished, my python script will not go into the directory. >how can i check that file A has actually finished?
I wrote a similar system that watches for new files arriving in an "uploads" directory, whether copied there via FTP or using a GUI desktop script. My heuristic was to only process files whose last-modified date/time was at least 5 minutes in the past. My assumption was that it was unlikely that 5 minutes would go by between more information being added to a file. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
