How to write a file generator

[Thomas Rachel]

Am 12.07.2011 16:46 schrieb 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

...

I have another solution: an object which is not an iterator, but an 
iterable.

class Follower(object):
     def __init__(self, file):
         self.file = file
     def __iter__(self):
         while True:
             l = self.file.readline()
             if not l: return
             yield l

if __name__ == '__main__':
     f = Follower(open("/var/log/messages"))
     while True:
         for i in f: print i,
         print "foo"
         import time
         time.sleep(4)

Here, you iterate over the object until it is exhausted, but you can 
iterate again to get the next entries.


Thomas