How to watch a directory for changes? [duplicate]

Question

Could not find anything in python core to do this. Can anyone recommend a library or "battery" to do this? Ideally I would like this to be portable but it's OK if it is available only for Unix (my server).

Answer 1

On Linux, you could be interested in pyinotify

1. https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify

Other related libraries:

1. http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/python.html
2. Python FAM interface: http://python-fam.sourceforge.net/
3. http://gorakhargosh.github.com/watchdog/