List of Examples

Short Examples

• loop.py: minimal example, should be read first
• daemon.py: simple example demonstrating how to daemonize pyinotify
• chain.py shows how to chain together several processing methods for the same event
• exclude.py and exclude.lst show how to exclude a list of files from being watched
• not_quiet.py demonstrates how to raise exceptions on errors
• stats.py: simple example for displaying statistics, but it is a pretext for using processing methods, as well as chaining and callback functions on notifier.loop()
• stats_threaded.py has the same purpose than stats.py but use a separate thread instead, this demonstrate how to use ThreadedNotifier
• transient_file.py and transient_file.sh is used for watching a transient file
• tutorial_asyncnotifier.py: simple example using AsyncNotifier class as notifier (relies on asyncore module)
• tutorial_notifier.py and tutorial_threadednotifier.py are used as examples in the Tutorial
• autocompile.py can be used to recompile a target automatically when monitored files are modified.
• coalesce.py: coalescing events.

Directly browse all these examples files from Pyinotify's repository.

Third parties examples / projects

• react, Alexander Bernauer's command line tool for inotify. Used for example to trigger execution of test suites when source files change.
• spotter, another command line tool for running arbitrary commands when files change.
• doit, a build-tool with built-in support for Pyinotify.
• pyinotifyd, A daemon for monitoring filesystem events with inotify on Linux and execute tasks (Python methods or Shell commands) with an optional delay.
• watchit, a command line tool for waiting for files to get modified, with optional support for basic polling.

If you wrote a short, self-contained example / project using Pyinotify and you want to share it, please edit this section or drop me a mail and I will include it here.