A Python File System Listener

I had two different directories. One was specific to all things published by my portfolio site and the other was specific to all things related to my resume. I wanted to keep these two directories distinct on my local drive; however, everytime I updated my resume, I also had to make sure I remembered to copy the latest one exported in PDF from a Word document to the public portfolio directory and properly rename it. This is a simply but unnecessarily tedious task. I figured all I needed to do is the have some event listener focus on a particular directory and copy the file over when a modification or file creation was detected.

• Python 3.5+
• Watchdog
• GitPython You can install Watchdog and GitPython by running the following command:

 $ pip install -r requirements.txt 

This script was intended to be setup in the Windows Task Scheduler and executed at startup. To execute the script, navigate to the src directory and run the following command:

 $ python HerokuFileUpdaterPDF.py author_name author_email commit_message git_directory directory_to_watch destination_directories 

• author_name: A String of the author and committer of the update.
• author_email: A String of the author and committer's email.
• commit_message: A String of the message associated with the Git commit.
• git_directory: A String of the path to the git directory the files will be moved to.
• directory_to_watch: A String of the path of the directory the script will listen to.
• destination_directories: A list of Strings (must include at least 1) of the path to which to move the updated file(s) to. The path must be space separated. This can include a new name of the file if needed. For example: if a file was originally called apple.pdf, you could specify the path /some_path/orange.pdf to be the new name of the copied file.

Change the patterns variable if you wish to listen to changes to other files beyond a simple PDF.