Sander Sweers wrote:
2009/8/6 Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org>:
You have to choose your poison.
I prefer no poison. This is exactly what inotiy was made for and
although I never used it there is a python module for it [1]. It would
be great if you can post your experience with it.
Greets
Sander
[1] http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify/wiki
pyinotify solves an interesting problem, and if it worked on Windows, I
already have a client with an application for it. But it has little to
do with the OP's question.
The problem the OP had was how to break out of a while loop, if the
single condition never got satisfied. The simplest answer is to make a
second condition (timeout), and use and. But that creates a second
problem -- what to do if it did timeout. That's the poison he had to
choose between.
The time when pyinotify becomes very useful is if there are a large
number of files/directories involved, and polling would be too slow.
Presumably, the supported OS provides some event notification when a
file is changed, and this module builds on that.
DaveA
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