On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 10:04:45 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > 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
@Dave, Chris, Paul and Dennis: Thank you for resources and the notes regarding what I should keep in mind. I have an initial commit: https://github.com/ahlusar1989/IntroToPython/blob/master/Project1WG_with_assumptions_and_comments.py I welcome your thoughts on this -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
