Hi, I need to read the end of a 20 MB gzip archives (To extract the date from the last line of a a gzipped log file). The solution I have below takes noticeable time to reach the end of the gzip archive.
Does anyone have a faster solution to read the last line of a gzip archive ? Thanks, Ron. #!/usr/bin/env python import gzip path = "./a/20/mb/file.tgz" in_file = gzip.open(path, "r") first_line = in_file.readline() print "first_line ==",first_line in_file.seek(-500) last_line = in_file.readlines()[-1] print "last_line ==",last_line
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