How can I monitor and capture changes to folders and files?
I intend to use this as part of a service that starts with the system the script would be in .pyw .
example:
if(mudou != padrao):
pass
But I do not know how I would do this script to monitor the changes of this folder, I thought to do with sleep() but I do not know if there would be a proper module for this.
You can use the Watchdog
Install:
> pip install watchdog
Example:
import sys
import time
import logging
from watchdog.observers import Observer
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
class MyHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):
def on_any_event(self, event):
print 'Evento', event.event_type,' caminho:', event.src_path, 'diretorio?', event.is_directory
path = 'C:\caminho\desejado\aqui'
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO,
format='%(asctime)s - %(message)s',
datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
observer = Observer()
observer.schedule(MyHandler(), path, recursive=True)
observer.start()
try:
while True:
time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
observer.stop()
observer.join()