Apparently there was a very good reason to use inotify. fixes #46 complete with test cases for inotify and polling.

Pipfile.lock

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "_meta": {
         "hash": {
-            "sha256": "ae2643b9cf0cf5741ae149fb6bc0c480de41329ce48e773eb4b5d760bc5e2244"
+            "sha256": "e9792119f687757dd388e73827ddd4216910327d5b65a8b950d4b202679c36eb"
         },
         "pipfile-spec": 6,
         "requires": {},
@@ -129,6 +129,14 @@
             "index": "pypi",
             "version": "==0.32.0"
         },
+        "inotify-simple": {
+            "hashes": [
+                "sha256:8440ffe49c4ae81a8df57c1ae1eb4b6bfa7acb830099bfb3e305b383005cc128",
+                "sha256:854f9ac752cc1fcff6ca34e9d3d875c9a94c9b7d6eb377f63be2d481a566c6ee"
+            ],
+            "index": "pypi",
+            "version": "==1.3.5"
+        },
         "joblib": {
             "hashes": [
                 "sha256:698c311779f347cf6b7e6b8a39bb682277b8ee4aba8cf9507bc0cf4cd4737b72",
@@ -663,11 +671,11 @@
         },
         "faker": {
             "hashes": [
-                "sha256:3f5d379e4b5ce92a8afe3c2ce59d7c43886370dd3bf9495a936b91888debfc81",
-                "sha256:8c0e8a06acef4b9312902e2ce18becabe62badd3a6632180bd0680c6ee111473"
+                "sha256:5398268e1d751ffdb3ed36b8a790ed98659200599b368eec38a02eed15bce997",
+                "sha256:d4183b8f57316de3be27cd6c3b40e9f9343d27c95c96179f027316c58c2c239e"
             ],
             "markers": "python_version >= '3.5'",
-            "version": "==4.17.0"
+            "version": "==4.17.1"
         },
         "filelock": {
             "hashes": [
@@ -999,11 +1007,11 @@
         },
         "virtualenv": {
             "hashes": [
-                "sha256:b0011228208944ce71052987437d3843e05690b2f23d1c7da4263fde104c97a2",
-                "sha256:b8d6110f493af256a40d65e29846c69340a947669eec8ce784fcf3dd3af28380"
+                "sha256:07cff122e9d343140366055f31be4dcd61fd598c69d11cd33a9d9c8df4546dd7",
+                "sha256:e0aac7525e880a429764cefd3aaaff54afb5d9f25c82627563603f5d7de5a6e5"
             ],
             "markers": "python_version >= '2.7' and python_version not in '3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3'",
-            "version": "==20.1.0"
+            "version": "==20.2.1"
         }
     }
 }