- capable to watch multi files at the same time.
- base on pyinotify
- easy to use
$ pip install thefilewatch
$ python -m thefilewatch.file_watch a.txt b.txt
import sys
from thefilewatch.file_watch import BaseWatchHandler, FileWatch
class PrintHandler(BaseWatchHandler):
def process(self, content):
print('getting content ', content)
if __name__ == '__main__':
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print('need watch files')
exit(1)
else:
file_list = sys.argv[1:]
watcher = FileWatch(file_list, PrintHandler())
watcher.start()start watching files
$ python -m thefilewatch.file_watch a.txt b.txt
see more specific examples in handlers folder.