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Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem?

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Date 2015-03-30 13:04 +1100
Subject Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Saran Ahluwalia <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> writes:
>> cross-platform...
>> * Monitors a folder for files that are dropped throughout the day
>
> I don't see a cross-platform way to do that other than by waking up and
> scanning the folder every so often (once a minute, say).  The Linux way
> is with inotify and there's a Python module for it (search terms: python
> inotify).  There might be comparable but non-identical interfaces for
> other platforms.

All too often, "cross-platform" means probing for one option, then
another, then another, and using whichever one you can. On Windows,
there's FindFirstChangeNotification and ReadDirectoryChanges, which
Tim Golden wrote about, and which I coded up into a teleporter for
getting files out of a VM automatically:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/watch_directory_for_changes.html
https://github.com/Rosuav/shed/blob/master/senddir.py

ChrisA

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Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran Ahluwalia <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 04:32 -0700
  Addendum to Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran Ahluwalia <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 04:37 -0700
    Re: Addendum to Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-03-29 14:33 +0200
      Re: Addendum to Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 05:41 -0700
      Re: Addendum to Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-01 07:17 -0700
    Re: Addendum to Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-29 09:27 -0400
  Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-29 19:00 -0400
  Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-29 18:08 -0700
    Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 13:04 +1100
      Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 09:45 -0700
        Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-30 14:35 -0400
          Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-03-31 04:00 -0700
            Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-31 09:19 -0400
              Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-01 06:43 -0700
                Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-01 19:51 -0400
                Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 06:06 -0700
                Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-02 17:10 -0400
                Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 16:43 -0700
                Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-04-03 12:45 +0200
                Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 06:40 -0700
                Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2015-04-03 07:59 -0400
                Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 05:50 -0700
                Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-03 16:21 -0400
                Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 19:16 -0700

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