Magnus Lycka wrote:
> To read the last x bytes of a file, you could do:
>
> >>> import os
> >>> x = 2000 # or whatever...
> >>> f=open('my_big_file')
> >>> l=os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_size
> >>> f.seek(l-x)
> >>> f.read()
You don't need fstat/st_size, you can ask seek to move to an offset
relative to the end of the file:
>>> x = 2000
>>> f = open('my_big_file')
>>> f.seek(-x, 2)
>>> f.read()
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