On 08/03/2011 15:15, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
I'm looking for advice on ways to have a script detect new or changed files in a specific folder. The easy way is to simply poll every second and to sleep between polling cycles. Is there a win32 technique that works from XP forward that might be a better choice? And/or are there issues with a simple polling technique that I should be aware of?
Brian Curtin's just written about this very subject: http://blog.briancurtin.com/2011/02/18/the-five-year-project-net-filesystemwatcher-clone-for-python/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/watcher/ TJG _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
