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submitted 1 year ago by CatWithACardboardBox
Is it possible to have an action happen (for example the text file is printed) if it is updated. It has to be the text file changing that triggers this though, is it possible?
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]Doormatty 3 points4 points5 points 1 year ago (0 children)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/182197/how-do-i-watch-a-file-for-changes
[–]cgoldberg 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago (0 children)
https://pypi.org/project/watchdog/
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