"Andy Leszczynski" > What if a file is long enough? I believe you meant "What if a file is too long to read all into memory at once?"
If the file is randomly accessible (with file.seek() backwards from the end) then you can read a chunk at the end that you expect to be large enough to contain the last line and search backwards for \n (ignoring a terminating \n) to find the end of the next-to-last line. Even if the file will fit in memory, this may be faster. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
