seb-m/pyinotify
Monitoring filesystems events with inotify on Linux. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5849
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 792
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2304 stars · 374 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Pyinotify is a Python library for monitoring filesystem events on Linux using the kernel's inotify subsystem. It wraps the inotify system calls and provides an event-driven API for watching files and directories.
Use cases
- watch a directory for file changes in python
- trigger actions when files are created or modified
- monitor config file changes on linux
- react to filesystem events in real time
- build a file sync or backup watcher
- detect when a log file is updated
When to choose
- you need filesystem event monitoring on Linux in Python
- you want a lightweight wrapper around inotify
- you need to support both Python 2 and 3
When to avoid
- you need cross-platform file watching (macOS/Windows)
- you want an actively developed library with modern features
- you are not on Linux kernel 2.6.13 or newer
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
file-system monitoring developer-tools operating-systems python inotify filesystem-watcher file-monitoring event-handling automation linux
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify · fetched 2026-08-28 · a493a202c4ab
- homepage: http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/wiki · fetched 2026-08-29 · 80d78ae448ae
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pyinotify/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 791e6a857031
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| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| seb-m/pyinotify | main | 32 |
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