On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 02:25:04AM +0530, Vishal wrote: > if you could read the entire file in one go...(i.e. unless your file is more > than 50MB)...how about the following?
>>> for line in reversed((open('filename').readlines()[-1:-n:-1])): ... print line Some comments: > # n is the number of lines you want to read. > l = open(filename).read().rsplit('\n', n+1) - readlines would be better. > # following is to keep the memory requirement low. > # but this is optional, if you only want to print the lines, and then end > the python process. > l[0] = None - Could not get why you are setting the first item to None. > gc.collect() This does not free anything. Where is something un-referenced for it to garbage collect? -- Senthil _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers