Recognizing the Arrival of a New File

[Greg Lindstrom]

Hello-
I am writing an application where I need to recognize when a file 
arrives in a given directory.  Files may arrive at any time during the 
course of the day.  Do I set up a cron job to poll the directory every 
few minutes?  Write a daemon to monitor the directory?  Or is there some 
other more common/accepted way to perform this task?  I'm using Python 
2.3 on Linux.

Thanks for your help,
--greg

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Greg Lindstrom               501 975.4859
Computer Programmer          greg.lindstrom at novasyshealth.com
NovaSys Health
Little Rock, Arkansas

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