Class Hierarchy

• asyncore.dispatcher
  • asyncore.file_dispatcher
    • pyinotify.AsyncNotifier: This notifier inherits from asyncore.file_dispatcher in order to be able to use pyinotify along with the asyncore framework.
• object: The most base type
  • exceptions.BaseException: Common base class for all exceptions
    • exceptions.Exception: Common base class for all non-exit exceptions.
      • pyinotify.PyinotifyError: Indicates exceptions raised by a Pyinotify class.
        • pyinotify.NotifierError: Notifier Exception.
        • pyinotify.ProcessEventError: ProcessEventError Exception.
        • pyinotify.UnsupportedLibcVersionError: Raised on unsupported libc versions.
        • pyinotify.UnsupportedPythonVersionError: Raised on unsupported Python versions.
      • pyinotify.WatchManagerError: WatchManager Exception.
  • pyinotify.Color: Internal class.
  • pyinotify.EventsCodes: Set of codes corresponding to each kind of events.
  • pyinotify.ExcludeFilter: ExcludeFilter is an exclusion filter.
  • logging.Filterer: A base class for loggers and handlers which allows them to share common code.
    • logging.Logger: Instances of the Logger class represent a single logging channel.
      • pyinotify.PyinotifyLogger: Pyinotify logger used for logging unicode strings.
  • logging.LogRecord: A LogRecord instance represents an event being logged.
    • pyinotify.UnicodeLogRecord
  • pyinotify.Notifier: Read notifications, process events.
    • pyinotify.AsyncNotifier: This notifier inherits from asyncore.file_dispatcher in order to be able to use pyinotify along with the asyncore framework.
    • pyinotify.ThreadedNotifier: This notifier inherits from threading.Thread for instanciating a separate thread, and also inherits from Notifier, because it is a threaded notifier.
  • pyinotify.SysCtlINotify: Access (read, write) inotify's variables through sysctl.
  • pyinotify.Watch: Represent a watch, i.e.
  • pyinotify.WatchManager: Provide operations for watching files and directories.
  • pyinotify._Event: Event structure, represent events raised by the system.
    • pyinotify.Event: This class contains all the useful informations about the observed event.
    • pyinotify._RawEvent: Raw event, it contains only the informations provided by the system.
  • pyinotify._ProcessEvent: Abstract processing event class.
    • pyinotify.ProcessEvent: Process events objects, can be specialized via subclassing, thus its behavior can be overriden:
      • pyinotify.ChainIfTrue: Makes conditional chaining depending on the result of the nested processing instance.
      • pyinotify.Stats: Compute and display trivial statistics about processed events.
    • pyinotify._SysProcessEvent: There is three kind of processing according to each event:
  • threading._Verbose
    • threading.Thread
      • pyinotify.ThreadedNotifier: This notifier inherits from threading.Thread for instanciating a separate thread, and also inherits from Notifier, because it is a threaded notifier.