Read from the last line of a file?

[Scott David Daniels]

Mike Rovner wrote:
> Anthony Liu wrote:
>> I am wondering if it is possible to start reading from
>> the last line of file, and then the last but one up to
>> the first line.
> If you can afford to keep the whole file in memory, than:
>     lines = open(..).readlines()
>     print lines[::-1]

Or use the new "reversed" generator to avoid a copy.

     for line in reversed(....readlines()):
         ....

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org