On May 5, 2:00 am, Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera <joel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to make something very similar to the command tail -f (follow a > file), i have been trying with some while True and some microsleeps > (about .1 s); did someone has already done something like this? > > And about the file is the apache acceslog of a site with a lot of > traffic. > > Regards > > joe / Joel Rivera
You might want to try http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/. Works well on Linux systems. Otherwise, I'd watch the mtime on the file and fork to handle the change. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list