Re: Any idea to emulate tail -f

2009-05-05 Thread norseman
Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera wrote: I want to make something very similar to the command tail -f (follow a file), i have been trying with some while True and some microsleeps (about .1 s); did someone has already done something like this? And about the file is the apache acceslog of a site with

Re: Any idea to emulate tail -f

2009-05-05 Thread J Kenneth King
Iain King writes: > On May 5, 7:00 am, Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera > wrote: >> I want to make something very similar to  the command tail -f (follow a >> file), i have been trying  with some while True and some microsleeps >> (about .1 s); did someone has already done something like this? >> >> A

Re: Any idea to emulate tail -f

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 23:50 -0700, CTO wrote: > You might want to try http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/. Works well on > Linux systems. Otherwise, I'd watch the mtime on the file and fork to > handle the change. > pyinotify works really well. If you need to watch a file, simply use the IN_MODIFY

Re: Any idea to emulate tail -f

2009-05-05 Thread Iain King
On May 5, 7:00 am, Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera wrote: > I want to make something very similar to  the command tail -f (follow a > file), i have been trying  with some while True and some microsleeps > (about .1 s); did someone has already done something like this? > > And about the file is the apac

Re: Any idea to emulate tail -f

2009-05-05 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message , Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera wrote: > I want to make something very similar to the command tail -f (follow a > file) ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Any idea to emulate tail -f

2009-05-04 Thread CTO
On May 5, 2:00 am, Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera wrote: > I want to make something very similar to  the command tail -f (follow a > file), i have been trying  with some while True and some microsleeps > (about .1 s); did someone has already done something like this? > > And about the file is the apac

Any idea to emulate tail -f

2009-05-04 Thread Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera
I want to make something very similar to the command tail -f (follow a file), i have been trying with some while True and some microsleeps (about .1 s); did someone has already done something like this? And about the file is the apache acceslog of a site with a lot of traffic. Regards joe