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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello Chaps,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’ve got a requirement to check a file for a change
every 10 seconds or so, and if the file has been modified since the last time I
parsed its content into the application then I need to parse it in again.
However, I need this process to not interrupt the rest of my application flow.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>What is the best way to handle this? Is there some form of
file watcher module for python which can watch the file for me and then parse
any changes into the application memory? Or should I be spawning and unjoined
thread which contains and infinite loop which checks a date/time the file was
modified against an internal date/time variable for when the application last
parsed the file into memory?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’ll be interested to hear your ideas guys,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Rob<o:p></o:p></p>
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