python file monitoring

Question

I'm working on Windows. and I want to monitor of system file.(access, open, write, modify) What modules are best for what I need to do? Is it possible to use python?

Thank you.

why reinvent the wheel? technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645 — wim
– wim, Commented Feb 6, 2012 at 6:01
@wim: How do you recommend that that be used from a Python script? — Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Commented Feb 6, 2012 at 6:03

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-06 06:06:04Z

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If you want a cross-platform solution then I recommend you delegate to PyGObject or PyQt4. You'll need to write your program as an event loop, but I suspect that you may not be far from doing that if you haven't already.

answered Feb 6, 2012 at 6:06

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