watchdog 6.0.0

Filesystem events monitoring

Stars: 7253, Watchers: 7253, Forks: 739, Open Issues: 223

The gorakhargosh/watchdog repo was created 15 years ago and the last code push was 1 months ago.
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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

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GitHub Issues

The watchdog package has 223 open issues on GitHub

• Add locking for BaseThread start/stop
• _is_observed_path_deleted (winapi.py) is wrong (possible fix provided)
• Windows/WinAPI: deleted directories result in FileDeletedEvent with is_directory=False (simple fix)
• event src_path and dest_path optionally being bytes (and pathlib proposal)

See more issues on GitHub