On Mar 11, 3:36 pm, Gordon Airporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to find a way to take a file that another program has opened > and writes to periodically, open it simultaneously in Python, and > automatically update some of my objects in Python when the file is > written to. > I can open the file and manually readlines() from it to keep up to date, > it's the automatic part I'm having trouble with. This is on Windows.
You might need to look at pywin32 for Windows specific ways to listen to "file changed" event. On Unix a quick shortcut would be to simply read the output of 'tail - f <file>' command... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
