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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | # Example: monitors transient files.
#
# Run this code, then run transient_file.sh in another shell.
import pyinotify
class ProcessTransientFile(pyinotify.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_DELETE 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 = pyinotify.WatchManager()
notifier = pyinotify.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', pyinotify.IN_MODIFY, ProcessTransientFile)
notifier.loop()
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