import os import sys import win32file import win32con ACTIONS = { 1: "Created", 2: "Deleted", 3: "Updated", 4: "Renamed from something", 5: "Renamed to something" } FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY = 0x0001 path_to_watch = 'E:/test' print 'Watching changes in', path_to_watch 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, filename in results: full_filename = os.path.join(path_to_watch, filename) print (full_filename, ACTIONS.get(action, "Unknown"))