surveiler

Very simple file-watching utility.

Installation

(coming soon) pip: pip install surveiler

Or just copy the file locally (it's literally 60 lines)

Usage

Two exported functions: make_event_handler, surveil. Signatures (not exactly):

def make_event_handler(**kw: dict[str, Callable[[], None]]) -> Callable[[int], None]: ...
def surveil(directory_name: str, event_handler: Callable[[int], None]) -> Never: ...

Example usage:

event_handler = make_event_handler(on_create=lambda: print('create'), on_modify=lambda: print('modify'))
surveil("testdirec", event_handler)

Check out the constants in the source file to see what event handlers you can add; any one of them can be adapted to a keyword argument to event_handler. Example: IN_MOVE -> on_move.