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# Pyinotify
* License : MIT
* Project URL : [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify](http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify)
* Project Wiki : [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/wiki](http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/wiki)
* API Documentation : [http://seb-m.github.com/pyinotify](http://seb-m.github.com/pyinotify)
* Examples : [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/tree/master/python2/examples/](http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/tree/master/python2/examples/)
## Dependencies
* Linux >= 2.6.13
* Python (CPython) >= 2.4
* Libc with inotify support (usually version >= 2.4 for GLibc)
* ctypes (part of the standard library since Python 2.5)
* Epydoc (optional, used to generate html documentation from docstrings)
## Install
### Install from the distributed tarball
# Choose your Python interpreter: either python, python2.6, python3.1,..
# Replacing XXX accordingly with your previous choice type:
$ sudo pythonXXX setup.py install
### Or install it with "Easy Install" (currently seems to work only for Python2)
$ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
$ sudo python ez_setup.py
$ sudo easy_install pyinotify
## Watch a directory
Install pyinotify and run this command from a shell:
$ python -m pyinotify -v /my-dir-to-watch
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