# newshiz3 watcher 0.1, creates picklefile in /tmp max every 1 minutes # usage: ./simple.py '/path-to-watch' import os from datetime import datetime, timedelta import pickle from pyinotify import SimpleINotify, EventsCodes, ProcessEvent createdlist = [] lastpickled = None class PCreate(ProcessEvent): def process_IN_CREATE(self, event_k): """ process 'IN_CREATE_*' events by checking to see if file is a directory """ if event_k.name: createdname = os.path.join(event_k.path, event_k.name) f = "%s" % createdname if event_k.isdir: print "%s: created (directory), adding to watchlist." % f ino.add_watch(event_k.path, mask, PCreate(), rec=True) else: # heart math operations on datetime objects timeadded = datetime.now() try: if lastpickled: pass except: lastpickled = timeadded print "%s: created file, adding to createdlist with timestamp %s (lastpickled %s)" % (f, timeadded, lastpickled) createdlist.append([createdname, timeadded]) if timeadded - lastpickled > timedelta(minutes=1): print "pickling createdlist to /tmp/newshiz" picklefile = open("/tmp/newshiz",'w') pickle.dump(createdlist, picklefile) picklefile.close() else: # in example but have never seen this get called print "move along, nothing to see here." f = "%s" % event_k.path if __name__ == '__main__': # import sys path = '/home/tom/code' # default watched path if sys.argv[1:]: path = sys.argv[1] # only interested in create/destroy mask = EventsCodes.IN_MODIFY | EventsCodes.IN_DELETE | \ EventsCodes.IN_CREATE # class instance and init ino = SimpleINotify() print "this is newshiz3, derived from simple.py" print 'start monitoring %s with mask %d' % (path, mask) added_flag = False while True: try: if not added_flag: print "adding root: %s"%path ino.add_watch(path, mask, PCreate(),rec=True) added_flag = True ino.process_events() if ino.event_check(): ino.read_events() except KeyboardInterrupt: # ...until c^c signal print 'stop monitoring...' # close inotify's instance ino.close() break except Exception, err: # otherwise keep on watching print err