Add the autoreload feature. This fixes #45. I've choosen to not serve the content

via HTTP, because it's really simple to do "firefox output/index.html".

pelican/utils.py

@@ -174,3 +174,27 @@ def process_translations(content_list):
         for a in items:
             a.translations = filter(lambda x: x != a, items)
     return index, translations
+
+
+LAST_MTIME = 0
+
+
+def files_changed(path, extensions):
+    """Return True if the files have changed since the last check"""
+
+    def with_extension(f):
+        return True if True in [f.endswith(ext) for ext in extensions] else False
+
+    def file_times(path):
+        """Return the last time files have been modified"""
+        for top_level in os.listdir(path):
+            for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top_level):
+                for file in filter(with_extension, files):
+                    yield os.stat(os.path.join(root, file)).st_mtime
+
+    global LAST_MTIME
+    mtime = max(file_times(path))
+    if mtime > LAST_MTIME:
+        LAST_MTIME = mtime
+        return True
+    return False