watchdog 5.0.3

Filesystem events monitoring

Stars: 6536, Watchers: 6536, Forks: 695, Open Issues: 197

The gorakhargosh/watchdog repo was created 13 years ago and the last code push was 2 days ago.
The project is extremely popular with a mindblowing 6536 github stars!

How to Install watchdog

You can install watchdog using pip

pip install watchdog

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add watchdog

Package Details

Author

Mickaël Schoentgen

License

Apache-2.0

Homepage

https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog

PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/watchdog/

Documentation:

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

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog

Classifiers

• Software Development/Libraries
• System/Filesystems
• System/Monitoring
• Utilities

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Errors

A list of common watchdog errors.

Code Examples

Here are some watchdog code examples and snippets.

GitHub Issues

The watchdog package has 197 open issues on GitHub

• watchmedo - argparse for –kill-after needs to be a float
• Fix Observer.unschedule hang on linux when called with watch of an unmounted path
• Check whether src_path is directory when it is deleted on Windows.
• WindowsApiEmitter puts wrong event into the queue when a directory is deleted
• Warning issues debug helper
• Broken Cirrus CI setup
• auto restart in watchdog==2.1.6
• Avoid unintended replacement to _path
• File rename triggers on_create event
• Observer stops handling events after a while
• Watchdog blocks eventlet/Flask from running in debug mode.

See more issues on GitHub