Andy Leszczynski wrote:
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> And to answer the question in the subject line:
>>
>> last_line = file(argv[1]).readlines()[-1]
>>
>> Both of which assume "from sys import argv".
>
> What if a file is long enough?
Huh? You mean what if it's too big to fit in memory? Then try this:
for last_line in file(argv[1]):
pass
At the end of the for loop, last_line should be bound to the last line
in the file. (If there's a chance your file might not have any lines,
you'll want to do some error checking...)
STeVe
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