If you are in a Linux machine, you can use `inotify`: "Inotify (inode notify) is a Linux kernel subsystem that acts to extend filesystems to notice changes to the filesystem".
It seems that there are a few option to use this from Python: http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/ http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576375-low-level-inotify-wrapper/ Alejandro. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Sebastian Rhode <sebrh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a textfile where every second a line is written. Usually the look > like this: > > 1; 124; 455 > > a second later > > 1; 124; 455 > 2; 104; 600 > > ... > > Finally such a file is quite easy to plot using matplotlib. But what would > be very useful for me is a script, that is watching the TXT file and updates > the plot when a new row "arrives". Any good ideas? > > Cheers, > > Sebi > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
