= Description =
Pyinotify is a pure Python module used for monitoring filesystems events on Linux platforms with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify inotify].

= Download Pyinotify (under MIT License) =
 * [wiki:InstallPyinotify Install pyinotify]
 * Download a [http://git.dbzteam.org/pyinotify/snapshot/pyinotify-master.tar.gz snapshot] of Pyinotify or just download a stable [http://seb.dbzteam.org/pub/pyinotify/releases/ tarball release]
 * [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify Browse the source tree] or read the following basic examples [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/tree/master/python2/examples/loop.py loop.py], [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/tree/master/python2/examples/chain.py chain.py], [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/tree/master/python2/examples/stats.py stats.py], [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/tree/master/python2/examples/transient_file.py transient_file.py] and [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/tree/master/python2/examples/daemon.py daemon.py].
 * You can clone Pyinotify with `git clone http://git.dbzteam.org/pyinotify/` or directly make a fork from github [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify]

= Documentation =

 * [wiki:Tutorial Short tutorial]
 * [wiki:PyinotifyExamples#Pyinotifyshortexamples List of examples]
 * [/pyinotify-api Generated documentation] from docstrings, offers a complete overview of every methods and classes
 * [DocumentationPage This page] introduces how to handle events, how to subclass [http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify/pyinotify-api/pyinotify.ProcessEvent-class.html ProcessEvent] and how to call [http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify/pyinotify-api/pyinotify.WatchManager-class.html WatchManager] methods
 * FrequentlyAskedQuestions
 
= Changes =
 * [wiki:LastDevelopments This page] introduces some of the developments accomplished recently
 * [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/blob/master/NEWS_old This document] lists every incompatibles changes introduced between version 0.7.1 and current versions 0.8+. Read also the third section of [wiki:LastDevelopments this page]
 * [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/commits/master Current change logs], [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/blob/master/ChangeLog_old old ones]

= Contribute =

 * Please report new issues directly on github [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/issues here]
 * Previous issues were posted and managed on Trac [/report here]