Python Watchdog Runs More Than Once

I am trying to learn python-watchdog, but I am sort of confused why the job I set up runs more than once. So, here is my set up: #handler.py import os from watchdog.events import F

Solution 1:

To debug watchdog scripts, it is useful to print what watchdog is seeing as events. One file edit or CLI command, such as touch, can result in multiple watchdog events. For example, if you insert a print statement:

classChangeHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):

    defon_any_event(self, event):
        print(event)

to log every event, running

% touch job.done

generates

2014-12-24 13:11:02 - <FileCreatedEvent:src_path='/home/unutbu/tmp/job.done'>
2014-12-24 13:11:02 - <DirModifiedEvent:src_path='/home/unutbu/tmp'>
2014-12-24 13:11:02 - <FileModifiedEvent:src_path='/home/unutbu/tmp/job.done'>

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Above there were two events with src_path ending in job.done. Thus,

ifgetext(event.src_path) == '.done':
        run_something()

runs twice because there is a FileCreatedEvent and a FileModifiedEvent. You might be better off only monitoring FileModifiedEvents.