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Watch new files and modify it - Macha - Mar-21-2019
Hello everyone,
I'm looking for some help on one of my project. I will try to describ my problem as best as I can.
I have a .txt files generated by a software every 50-60sec around. The new file replaces the last one, the name stay the same.
I want to open that files when he is written, modify some line et save to another folder.
My problem : I don't how to watch a specific folder to see new files. Can you help me on it?
I have search on google without success, maybe I didn't have the right key work for this.
Thank you all of you for your help,
RE: Watch new files and modify it - buran - Mar-21-2019
have a look at watchdog
RE: Watch new files and modify it - hshivaraj - Mar-27-2019
There's also pywatch you can use. Wrapper around linux watch command.
RE: Watch new files and modify it - metulburr - Mar-27-2019
You could use git, make a commit, then come back later and compare and contrast the difference with
diff argument. The python standard library difflib is similar if you want to programmatically do it.