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Pyinotify is a Python module for monitoring filesystems changes. Pyinotify relies on a Linux Kernel feature (merged in kernel 2.6.13) called inotify. inotify is an event-driven notifier, its notifications are exported from kernel space to user space through three system calls. pyinotify binds these system calls and provides an implementation on top of them offering a generic and abstract way to manipulate those functionalities.

Documentation

• Install
• List of examples
• Tutorial
• Generated documentation (the most up-to-date documentation)
• Inotify's man-page
• Events types and inotify flags
• Handling events
• Recent developments
• Frequently asked questions
• Pyinotify's questions on Stackoverflow

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