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import os
import sys
import time

import win32file
import win32event
import win32con

ACTIONS = {
 1 : "Created",
 2 : "Deleted",
 3 : "Updated",
 4 : "Renamed from something",
 5 : "Renamed to something"
}
FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY = 0x0001

path_to_watch = u"d:\\test"
path_to_watch = os.path.abspath (path_to_watch)

print "Watching %s at %s" % (path_to_watch, time.asctime ())

FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY = 0x0001
hdir = win32file.CreateFile (path_to_watch,
   FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY, win32con.FILE_SHARE_READ | win32con.FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
   None, win32con.OPEN_EXISTING, win32con.FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, None)

 
while 1:

   results = win32file.ReadDirectoryChangesW (
       hdir, 1024, True,
       win32con.FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_FILE_NAME |
       win32con.FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_DIR_NAME |
       win32con.FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_ATTRIBUTES |
       win32con.FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_SIZE |
       win32con.FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE |
       win32con.FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_SECURITY,
       None, None
   )
   for action, file in results:
       full_filename = os.path.join (path_to_watch, file)
       print full_filename, ACTIONS.get (action, "Unknown")