How to edit new or changed files on Mac OSX

Question

On Windows, MS provides the ReadDirectoryChangesW and FindFirstChangeNotification API programs for working with a new or modified file, does Mac OSX support equal functionality?

Answer 1

On Mac OS X Leopard, track file changes using the File System Events API

Answer 2

See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MacFSEvents/0.2.1 for a Python implementation.

Answer 3

OS X FSEvents, .