Watchdog

Abstraction: Python library for monitoring filesystem events via API and shell utilities

Key points:

• Watchdog is a Python API library and shell utilities package for monitoring file system events
• Supports Python 3.6+; older Python 2.x versions require watchdog < 1.0.0
• Provides both a programmatic API and command-line shell utilities
• Open source; hosted at github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog

Connections: Watchdog · Filesystem Monitoring · Event Driven Programming

Source: https://python-watchdog.readthedocs.io/en/stable/