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pynotifyx is a simple Python binding to the Linux inotify file system event monitoring API.
pynotifyx is a simple Python binding to the Linux inotify file system event monitoring API.
Documentation is provided in the module. To get help, start an interactive Python session and type:
import pynotifyx help(pynotifyx)
You can also test out pynotifyx easily. The following command will print events for /tmp:
python -m pynotifyx /tmp
Tests can be run via setup.py:
./setup.py test
Note that the module must be built and installed for tests to run correctly. In the future, this requirement will be lifted.
Visit https://github.com/joeisca/pynotifyx for more information.
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pynotifyx is a simple Python binding to the Linux inotify file system event monitoring API.
We found that pynotifyx demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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