Iain King <iaink...@gmail.com> writes: > On May 5, 7:00 am, Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera <joel...@gmail.com> > 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 a lot of >> traffic. >> >> Regards >> >> joe / Joel Rivera > > This is very interesting, about using Generator Expressions: > http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:ZHrV4E0eTI8J:www.dabeaz.com/generators/Generators.pdf > > Relevant stuff about 'tail -f' is on page 39, but I'd read the whole > thing if you can. > > Iain
+1 I second this suggestion. I've used this method in many scripts of late and it is quite handy. He even takes it a little further and shows you some neat things you can do with it later on. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list