What kind of file is it? CSV? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Sanders Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 11:26 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Watching a file another app is writing
Gordon Airporte 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. It occurs to me under Unix you could perhaps get your first program to write to a "named pipe", which you 2nd program could read from. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders http://www.jeremysanders.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
