[ANSWERED]: MacFSEvents for py 2.5

does anyone know of an equivalent packed for py 2.5. MacFSEvents requires python 2.7 and Indigo only supports 2.5..

MacFSEvent is a package that allows to set a trigger on a file: If THAT file changes your python function gets called. you doing have to test date/timestamp or file size every second to check if anything has changed.


thanks

Karl

[matt (support)]

watchdog looks promising, but requires py 2.6+.

pyinotify might work, but I didn't look at it in detail.

If you are going for a fast way to get it done and don't want to have to worry about installing a package, then I would just poll the modification date in a loop with a sleep as detailed here:

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import os.path, time
files = ['file1.txt', 'file2.txt', 'file3,txt']
changes =  {"file1.txt":os.path.getmtime("file1.txt"),"file2.txt":os.path.getmtime("file2.txt"),"file3.txt":os.path.getmtime("file3.txt")}
while True:
    for f in files:
        if changes.get(f) < os.path.getmtime(f):
            print "File {} has been modified".format(f)
            changes[f] = os.path.getmtime(f)
        else:
            print "No changes, going to sleep."
    time.sleep(10)

I am currently doing the "sleep loop" and checking the date. was looking for some other way. thanks for the pointer