Check File Change Every 10 Seconds

[Paul Rubin]

"Robert Rawlins - Think Blue" <robert.rawlins at thinkbluemedia.co.uk> writes:
> That certainly looks to be the type of thing that I'm looking to
> achieve, however, I forgot to mention I'm running this on a Linux
> platform and not a Win32 one :-( Sorry.

If it's just one file, then yes, stat it in a loop with os.sleep.

If you want to do something fancier like watch the appearance and
disappearance of files in a directory, use the inotify system:

http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/