On Tue, Mar 22 2011, briji...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi All, > How can I print last five lines of a file using python. The file may > contain thousands of lines each line may differ in length.
[...] You'd have to use some kind of heuristic (a.k.a. dirty hack). Stat the file to find it's size and use an "average" length of line to go a few lines back. Then count the number of newlines from there to the end. If it's 4, then you have your 5 lines. Otherwise, seek back a little more and repeat. -- _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
