README.rst

inotify library for asyncio

Requirements

• Python >= 3.4

License

aioinotify is released under the Apache 2 license.

Documentation

TODO: Link to readthedocs

Getting started

import sys
import asyncio
from aioinotify import connect_inotify


@asyncio.coroutine
def print_event(event):
    print('Got event: {}'.format(event))


@asyncio.coroutine
def watch_directory(path):
    """
    Watch for all events in *path* for 60 seconds.
    """
    with (yield from connect_inotify()) as inotify:
        with (yield from inotify.watch(print_event, path, all_events=True)):
            print('Printing all file system events in {}'.format(path))
            yield from asyncio.sleep(60.0)
            print('And now his watch is ended')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    loop.run_until_complete(watch_directory(sys.argv[1]))
    loop.close()