Randomly Handling File System Events with Watchdog

This code defines a file monitoring function based on the watchdog library, randomly handles events such as creation, modification, and deletion, and continuously monitors a specified directory.

Technology Stack : watchdog library, file system event handling

Code Type : The type of code

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import random
from watchdog.observers import Observer
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler

def random_file_event_handler(path, event_type):
    # This function handles file system events randomly selected from watchdog library
    if event_type == 'created':
        print(f"File {path} has been created.")
    elif event_type == 'modified':
        print(f"File {path} has been modified.")
    elif event_type == 'deleted':
        print(f"File {path} has been deleted.")
    else:
        print(f"Unknown event {event_type} for file {path}.")

def start_monitoring(directory):
    # This function starts monitoring a directory for file system events
    event_handler = FileSystemEventHandler()
    event_handler.on_any_event = random_file_event_handler

    observer = Observer()
    observer.schedule(event_handler, directory, recursive=True)
    observer.start()
    try:
        while True:
            # Run indefinitely until manually stopped
            pass
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        observer.stop()
    observer.join()

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