Directory & File Monitoring

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Fri Jun 6 13:44:51 EDT 2003


stevesusenet at yahoo.com (Steve) writes:

> Hi;
> 
> I would like to write a python script for windows 2000 that will log
> who/what touches a particular file in a particular directory.
> 
> Is this possible with python alone or do I need to access some Windows
> api( and which one?)?
> 

The win32all extensions have Find[First|Next]ChangeNotification
functions which allow to do this. They are (why?) both in the win32api
and the win32file module.

Thomas




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