Xah Lee wrote:
> Martin Franklin wrote:
>
>>import gzip
>>log_file = gzip.open("access_log.4.gz")
>>last_line = log_file.readlines()[-1]
>>log_file.close()
>
>
> does the
> log_file.readlines()[-1]
> actually read all the lines first?
Yes I'm afraid it does.
>
> i switched to system call with tail because originally i was using a
> pure Python solution
>
> inF = gzip.GzipFile(ff, 'rb');
> s=inF.readlines()
> inF.close()
> last_line=s[-1]
>
> and since the log file is 100 megabytes it takes a long time and hogs
> massive memory.
>
Ok, in that case stick to your shell based solution, although 100
megabytes does not sound that large to me I guess it is relative
to the system you are running on :) (I have over a gig of memory here)
> Xah
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