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watchfiles
Simple, modern and fast file watching and code reload for Python, written in Rust

Python · 2537 stars
dirty-equals
Doing dirty (but extremely useful) things with equals.

Python · 1006 stars
spread
Spreadsheet viewer, in Rust using GPUI

Rust · 94 stars

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Compatibility: support modern union syntax for type hints and introspection Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#392 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Allow IsDict and IsList to be used alone like IsDataclass? Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#139 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Add prebuilt macOS binaries / GitHub Releases Open

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samuelcolvin/spread#4 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
IsUUID is not hashable and can therefore not be used to test dict keys Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#138 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Regression in Python 3.15: test_pprint fails due to apparently trivial formatting differences Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#129 · 2 comments · Opened May 19, 2026
macOS: case-only rename produces spurious added event instead of deleted + added pair Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#368 · Opened May 14, 2026
How to satisfy type-checker Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#126 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 14, 2026
_rust_notify.WatchfilesRustInternalError: error in underlying watcher: IO error for operation on <python path>: No such file or directory (os error 2) Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#361 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 31, 2026
Watcher timing issue: debounce never triggers and step fires once based on first modification Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#360 · Opened Jan 2, 2026
Feat: Option to yield immediately when watcher starts Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#358 · Opened Nov 10, 2025
Feature: Add structured pass/fail explanations for dirty_equals validators Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#119 · Opened Nov 1, 2025
Make `awatch`'s `stop_event` accept `AbstractEvent` Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#357 · Opened Oct 21, 2025
awatch() should take an optional `ready: asyncio.Event` Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#350 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 7, 2025
How to extend watchfiles for files in s3 buckets? Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#349 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 26, 2025
How does watchfiles handle IN_Q_OVERFLOW if the inotify buffer ever overflows? Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#348 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2025
FEAT: Feature request to allow iterating over `FileChange` rather than `set[FileChange]` Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#347 · Opened Aug 24, 2025
watchfiles fails to work on Debian-12 + python-3.11 Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#346 · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Add IsTrue, IsFalse, IsBool, IsNone Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#115 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2025
Feature request: get notifications when a file is closed Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#345 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 16, 2025
awatch hits OS watch limits due to filtering occurring after watch registration Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#341 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 6, 2025
Feature request: Replacing dirty-equals instances with sample values, given a context Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#114 · Opened Jun 3, 2025
Install crashes on `ARM` with `Musl` (e.g. RPi + Alpine) Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#339 · 1 comment · Opened May 26, 2025
example throw errors Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#337 · Opened May 6, 2025
Surprising behaviour of `IsNow(unix_number=True, tz="UTC")` Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#113 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 2, 2025
Two test regressions related to IP addresses in Python 3.14 Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#112 · Opened Mar 18, 2025
`test_rust_notify.py` failures Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#332 · Opened Mar 5, 2025
Expose `follow_links` Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#330 · Opened Feb 27, 2025
`stop_event` weird behavior Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#329 · Opened Feb 26, 2025
Dynamicly adjusting `rust_timeout` Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#328 · Opened Jan 14, 2025
Missed sub-second updates when using polling Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#319 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 19, 2024
Using watchfiles to run two commands with "&&" Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#315 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 2, 2024
`watchfiles` Does Not Correctly Handle Process Exit on Windows Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#308 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 24, 2024
Feature request: Support watching non-existent files/directories Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#306 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 18, 2024
'Venv' is not used for some reason? Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#305 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 18, 2024
AnyThing() full diff Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#108 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 15, 2024
Getting more default values from environment variables Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#302 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2024
Failed to run on Windows 7. Please, remove support for Python v3.8. Because Python v3.8 still supports Windows 7 Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#300 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2024
Segfault when running under free-threaded Python Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#299 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2024
Feature request: add or remove watched directories while `async for changes in awatch('/path/to/dir')` is iterating Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#298 · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 21, 2024
Testsuite hangs on test_ignore_permission_denied on Debian i386 Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#262 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 1, 2024
Signal timeout does not propagate Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#258 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2024
Enforce clearer usage of `IsList()` etc. with no arguments Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#96 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 18, 2024
tests/test_watch.py::test_awatch_interrupt_raise is failing with anyio>=4 Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#254 · 10 comments · Opened Dec 3, 2023
There was a problem installing the watchfiles. Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#236 · Opened Jul 14, 2023
DeprecationWarning for datetime.utcfromtimestamp() in Python 3.12 Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#71 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 28, 2023
Do not run the callback when `watchfiles` starts up Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#226 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 21, 2023
`IsInstance` does not work for Pydantic BaseModels Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#61 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2023
A way to ensure that all elements in a sequence match constraint Open

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samuelcolvin/dirty-equals#60 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 13, 2023
Orphan process left over after SIGTERM under multiprocessing.Manager Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#218 · Opened Feb 15, 2023
`FileNotFoundError` during development Open

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samuelcolvin/watchfiles#207 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 11, 2022

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