I don't know how to use the watchdog script and read file script together.
import sys
import time
import logging from watchdog.observers
import Observer from watchdog.events
import LoggingEventHandler
if name == "main":
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s - %(message)s', datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
path = "C:/watch"
event_handler = LoggingEventHandler()
observer = Observer()
observer.schedule(event_handler, path, recursive=True)
observer.start()
try:
while True:
time.sleep(1)
finally:
observer.stop()
observer.join()
file = open('test.txt','r')
f = file.readlines()
newList = []
for line in f:
newList.append(line[:-1])
print(newList)
Your imports are incorrect (syntax error), and so is the if name == "main":
test, take another look at the example in https://pypi.org/project/watchdog/. Here's a patched version, plus a couple of changes listed below:
import sys
import time
import logging
from watchdog.observers import Observer
from watchdog.events import LoggingEventHandler
def on_modified(event_handler):
print(f'event_handler.src_path={event_handler.src_path}')
if __name__ == "__main__":
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s - %(message)s',
datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
path = "C:/watch"
event_handler = LoggingEventHandler()
event_handler.on_modified = on_modified
observer = Observer()
observer.schedule(event_handler, path, recursive=True)
observer.start()
try:
while True:
time.sleep(1)
finally:
observer.stop()
observer.join()
I added a callback function on_modified
(currently does just a print), assigned it to your event handler's on_modified function, removed the editing of the "test.txt" file at the end. You should now put this into the callback function.
You can see in the callback function that event_handler.src_path
is the path to a file that was modified: at that point, you can put the code to read the file.