On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:17:40 -0500, Matty Sarro wrote: > Hey everyone. > I'm in the midst of writing a parser to clean up incoming files, remove > extra data that isn't needed, normalize some values, etc. The base files > will be uploaded via FTP. > How does one go about scanning a directory for new files? For now we're > looking to run it as a cron job but eventually would like to move away > from that into making it a service running in the background.
You can try pyinotify. Pyinotify is a Python module for monitoring filesystems changes. Pyinotify relies on a Linux Kernel feature (merged in kernel 2.6.13) called inotify. inotify is an event-driven notifier, its notifications are exported from kernel space to user space through three system calls. pyinotify binds these system calls and provides an implementation on top of them offering a generic and abstract way to manipulate those functionalities. I'm assuming your using Linux. You seem to be at least using UNIX (cron). read more at: http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/ Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
