On 6/22/07, Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everyone, > > I'm interested in writing a python program that reads from a log file > and then executes actions based on the lines. I effectively want to > write a loop that does something like this: > > while True: > log_line = log_file.readline() > do_something(log_line) > > Where the readline() method blocks until a new line appears in the > file, unlike the standard readline() method which returns an empty > string on EOF. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? > Thanks in advance!
I checked the source code for tail and they actually poll the file by using fstat and sleep to check for changes in the file size. This didn't seem right so I thought about it more and realized I ought to be using inotify. So I guess I answered my own question. -- Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
