async watch directory for new files

Zoran zljubisic at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 16:12:56 EDT 2021


On Saturday, 24 April 2021 at 18:52:24 UTC+2, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Zoran wrote at 2021-4-23 14:31 -0700: 
> >I need to watch for new files in directory, and when it shows up, I should create async task with file's full path for it, and wait for new file. 
> > 
> >If anyone here used a library for such task, please share which one.
> The solution likely depends on the OS you are using. 
> 
> For Linux, `inotify` informs applications about file system changes. 
> PyPI contains a binding for it -- with identical name.

As I can see https://pypi.org/project/inotify/ is not asyncio frendly.
Whatever I use, it should be asynchronous. 
Final OS is linux (Centos 7), but I am doing development on Windows 10 machine, so it would be nice if I have something that works on both.


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