Twisted's inotify watches for changes in a directory, reactor handles response in a different thread or process.

README.md: this file .gitignore: guess /src cmdline.py: a simple test script that simulates random processing latency dir_watch.py: the main file for this module tw_simple_proc.py: simple implementation of twisted's process protocol & interface to threadding

1. import the module

   import dir_watch

2. create a watcher for a directory

   my_notify = Dir_Watcher("/tmp/filewatch")

3. register one or more callback functions

   declare a function that takes a twisted FilePath

   set a refrence to that function in the watcher's callbacks dictionary

   where the key == string representation of the event needing response

   use tw_simple_proc for parallel processing of events

   can also use Queue.Queue, etc.

   def callbackfn(event, filepath): print filepath

   my_notify.callbacks['create'] = callbackfn

4. turn on the listeners for the scripted events

   my_notify.events = ['create']

5. run your reactor

   reactor.run()

6. enjoy with family and friends.