On 17 February 2013 15:57, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: > On 17/02/13 09:14, Brajesh pant wrote: >> >> Actually i want to build a utility such that a when a file or folder > >> is copied i want to automatically run my python script .. >> > > And this is a far different thing because you specifically want to monitor > the file-system regardless of how the files get moved. > This is very dependent on the OS and even the file-system. For example with > a journalling file-system it will be much easier to do this than with the > old DOS FAT based system or even older Unix systems like ext2. > And I don;t know of any Python modules that would help directly, I suspect > you need to get down 'n dirty with the OS itself. > > I'll be interested to see what other folks suggest on this one.
I would suggest watchdog: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog There are other packages that do this but watchdog is the only one that I have used. This is a Python package that enables you to watch for changes in a directory. I've used it on Linux but it claims to work on Windows, OSX and BSD as well. Using this you can run any Python code you like when a change occurs. The way it works is that you have a script that imports and uses the watchdog module. You run that script telling it to watch a particular folder and while it is running it will be notified of any changes and will run the code that you specify for each event. Oscar _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
