2007/11/12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why not use the file creation/modification timestamps?
because you'd have to a) create a thread that pulls all the time for changes or b) test everytime for changes fam informs in a notification like way. Personally I'd create a "hidden" cache file parsable by configparser and have filename = $favorite_checksum_algo - key value pairs in it if it's not a long running process. Otherwise I'd probably go with fam (or hal i think that's the other thing that does that) hth martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list