Cropping log files

[Gerrit Holl]

Robin Munn wrote:
> Or if you really want to do it in pure Python, then have a look at the
> source for 'tail' and see how it finds the last N lines. In most of my
> experiments, I've found that 'tail' grabs the last 10 lines out of a
> 1-gigabyte log file within milliseconds, while 'wc -l' takes a lot
> longer to count the whole file. That's not very scientific evidence, of
> course, but why don't you try it and see for yourself?

Maybe it .seeks() to .getsize()?

Gerrit.

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