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inotifyx is a Python extension providing access to the Linux inotify file system event notification API. It is primarily written in C but has some Python window dressing.

This extension is based on the python-inotify package by Manuel Amador. It is distributed under the MIT license.

inotifyx exists as an alternative to the better known pyinotify bindings. Reasons you might choose inotifyx over pyinotify:

• inotifyx is a C extension and does not use ctypes, making it faster and less prone to subtle breakage due to changes in the inotify API.
• inotifyx is a much thinner wrapper around inotify. pyinotify is more complicated. It does provide features that inotifyx does not, but many of them are not needed by most applications.
• The API provided by pyinotify seems to change in incompatible ways on a fairly regular basis and with little justification. inotifyx has a simple API that will change rarely, if ever.

inotifyx exists because pytagsfs needs to have inotify support and I don't want to use pyinotify for some of the reasons mentioned above.

$ bzr branch https://launchpad.net/inotifyx