pywatch

What is it?

A Python module and a com­mand line client that allow you to run arbi­trary shell com­mands when­ever changes occur in a list of spec­i­fied files.

Why?

Read the announce­ment

Get it

Example

pywatch --help
Usage: pywatch [options] "command" file1 file2 ...



Options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose  Output timestamp when commands are run.
chris@pinko:~/Code/pywatch$ pywatch -v ./bin/test src/pywatch/watcher.py src/pywatch/tests.py



Running commands at 2009-06-20 12:00:13.226711
Running zope.testing.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testing.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in 0.000 seconds.
  Ran 4 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors in 2.003 seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testing.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in 0.000 seconds.



Running commands at 2009-06-20 12:00:34.422557
Test-module import failures:



Module: pywatch.tests



Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/chris/Code/pywatch/src/pywatch/tests.py", line 1, in 
    import makethistestblowup
ImportError: No module named makethistestblowup



Test-modules with import problems:
  pywatch.tests
Total: 0 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors in 0.000 seconds.



Running commands at 2009-06-20 12:00:44.600708
Running zope.testing.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testing.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in 0.000 seconds.
  Ran 4 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors in 2.006 seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testing.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in 0.000 seconds.