On 2010-06-25, Tim Harig <user...@ilthio.net> wrote: > It sounds to me, since your script is acting on an event, that it > would benefit from using something like inotify, or whatever your > system equivilant would be (FSEvents for Mac? FAM framework for general > POSIX. There are python modules available.), so that your script can > react when (and only when) it notices changes to the folder in question.
pynotify (Linux inotify): http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify FSEvents wrapper: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyobjc-framework-FSEvents/2.2b2 FAM: C libraries and daemon: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fam/ Python wrapper: http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-fam/ Similar functionality is available for other platforms; but, you will need to look at the documentation for those platforms for information on how to access it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list