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authorSebastien Martini <seb@dbzteam.org>2009-11-06 01:05:18 +0100
committerSebastien Martini <seb@dbzteam.org>2009-11-06 01:05:18 +0100
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downloadpyinotify-a307369bed619929c3bb5e97a557054947e246e2.tar.gz
Modified Pyinotify's hierarchy in order to support differents version
for Python2 and for Python3.
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+# Example: monitors transient files.
+#
+# Run this code, then run transient_file.sh in another shell.
+from pyinotify import *
+
+class ProcessTransientFile(ProcessEvent):
+
+ def process_IN_MODIFY(self, event):
+ # We have explicitely registered for this kind of event.
+ print '\t', event.pathname, ' -> written'
+
+ def process_default(self, event):
+ # Implicitely IN_CREATE and IN_DELATE are watched too. You can
+ # ignore them and provide an empty process_default or you can
+ # process them, either with process_default or their dedicated
+ # method (process_IN_CREATE, process_IN_DELETE) which would
+ # override process_default.
+ print 'default: ', event.maskname
+
+
+wm = WatchManager()
+notifier = Notifier(wm)
+# In this case you must give the class object (ProcessTransientFile)
+# as last parameter not a class instance.
+wm.watch_transient_file('/tmp/test1234', IN_MODIFY, ProcessTransientFile)
+notifier.loop()