inotiy: .. code-block:: python #/usr/bin/env python import os from pyinotify import WatchManager, Notifier, ThreadedNotifier, EventsCodes, ProcessEvent wm = WatchManager() mask = EventsCodes.IN_DELETE | EventsCodes.IN_CREATE # watched events class PTmp(ProcessEvent): def process_IN_CREATE(self, event): print " Create: %s " % os.path.join(event.path, event.name) def process_IN_DELETE(self, event): print " Remove: %s " % os.path.join(event.path, event.name) notifier = Notifier(wm, PTmp()) wdd = wm.add_watch('/tmp', mask, rec=True) while True: # loop forever try : # process the queue of events as explained above notifier.process_events() if notifier.check_events(): # read notified events and enqeue them notifier.read_events() # you can do some tasks here... except KeyboardInterrupt: # destroy the inotify's instance on this interrupt (stop monitoring) notifier.stop() break