py-file-change

py-file-change is a tool that execute specific command when any file changes in the directory.

Usage

Start cmd/terminal and run following command.

$ python -m py-file-change config.json

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Config file

py-file-change requires a configuration file to continue/start the process.

Create a configuration file in root directory or current working directory where you execute the py-file-change

Configuration file must be JSON file and should content required data.

Name	Type	Default value	Description
cmd	required	-	command to execute
watch	optional	.	directory to watch
exclude_ends	optional	[]	ending files will be excluded
do_print	optional	false	print created, changed, deleted files
use_kill	optional	false	uses kill method instead terminate method

Below is the configuration file example that will used to execute command python app.py , watch current directory(.) , if the name of file changed is ending with .json process won't terminate

{
    "cmd" : "python app.py",
    "watch" : ".",
    "exclude_ends" : [
        ".json"
    ],
    "do_print" : false,
    "use_kill" : false
}

py-file-change will take more CPU and Memory when you use it to detect changes in directory that contains large number of files.