Using pyinotify to watch for file creation, but waiting for it to be completely written to disk

Question

I\'m using pyinotify to watch a folder for when files are created in it. And when certain files are created I want to move them. The problem is that as soon as the file is c

Answer 1

If you have control of the writing process, you could call the file "foo.part" while it is being written to and rename it to "foo" when it has been closed.