Martin Franklin wrote:
> 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)
since the file is gzipped, you need to read all of it to get the last line.
however, replacing
last_line = logfile.readlines()[-1]
with a plain
for last_line in logfile: pass
avoids storing the entire file in memory.
(note that seek() actually reads the file in 1024 blocks until it gets
to the right location; reading via a line iterator only seems to be
marginally slower. zcat|tail is a LOT faster. ymmv.)
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