How to write a file generator

[Billy Mays]

I want to make a generator that will return lines from the tail of 
/var/log/syslog if there are any, but my function is reopening the file 
each call:

def getLines():
    with open('/var/log/syslog', 'rb') as f:
        while True:
            line = f.readline()
            if line:
                yield line
            else:
                raise StopIteration

I know the problem lies with the StopIteration, but I'm not sure how to 
tell the caller that there are no more lines for now.

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