Hi Vimal,
The pytailer is really cool stuff, i will try this.
Actually i got another option also, just look at this
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/120686
This is also seems be to fine, let me check both to get a best one.
Thanks for your information.
thanks
Arivoli
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Vimal Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Arivoli,
>
> Theres a dirty trick ;) (by running a command).. If u r on a linux
> machine u can use the tail command .. tail -100 <filename> would give u the
> last 100 lines of <filename> ..
> (or do a seek and read)
> or u can try this http://code.google.com/p/pytailer/
>
> Regards,
> Vimal
>
>
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> From: Arivoli S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: bangpypers@python.org
> Sent: Friday, April 4, 2008 11:29:40 PM
> Subject: [BangPypers] How to read a file from bottom
>
> Hi everybody,
> i have a log file which will grow everyday, so the size will be nearly
> 500MB. i am keep on inserting a line one by one in the file.
> so the latest one will be in the bottom. I need to get latest 100
> lines(lines from bottom). Any idea how to read lines from bottom in a text
> file?
>
> I tried storing into a list line by line, and iterating from bottom , but
> it seems to be slow. Is there any better way to do this?
>
> thanks
> Arivoli
>
>
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