On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:56, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > > The point here is that text is a very different thing. Because you > cannot seek to an absolute number of characters in an encoding with > variable sized characters. _If_ you did a seek to an arbitrary number > you can end up in the middle of some character. And there are encodings > where you cannot inspect the data to find a character boundary in the > byte stream.
Ooook, now I understand what you and Barry mean. I suppose there's no reliable way to tail a big file opened in text mode with a decent performance. Anyway, the previous-previous function I posted worked only for files opened in binary mode, and I suppose it's reliable, since it searches only for b"\n", as readline() in binary mode do. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
