How to streamingly read text file and display whenever updated text
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Oct 5 07:08:18 EDT 2013
On 05/10/2013 12:02, Joost Molenaar wrote:
> A bit of googling found me this:
> http://www.linux-support.com/cms/implementation-of-tail-in-python/
>
> import time
> import sys
>
> def tail_f(file):
> interval = 1.0
> while True:
> where = file.tell()
> line = file.readline()
> if not line:
> time.sleep(interval)
> file.seek(where)
> else:
> yield line
>
In future could you please quote some context so that it's easier for us
mere mortals to follow the thread, thanks in anticipation.
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Mark Lawrence
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