Async Sleep?

[Tim Head]

If your task is indeed to watch a directory for "activity" and thenact
upon this activity then you would be much better of doing what Lawrence
suggests. For linux there is the inotify bit in the kernel.
As you are using win32com I'll assume you are using windows.

This snippet in the cookbook seems to do the job
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/156178

if it doesn't do exactly what you wnat have a poke around win32

tim