[Tutor] Trying to extract the last line of a text file

[Brian van den Broek]

Asrarahmed Kadri said unto the world upon 19/10/06 12:55 PM:
> My algorithm is like this:
> first count the number of lines in the file by using a loop.
> Use a second loop and when teh counter reaches the num_of_lines values: 
> take
> the line.
> 
> Is there any other way to do it??
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/19/06, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Asrarahmed Kadri wrote:
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>> > I want to extract the last line of the text file. Any idea ???
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>> Hi Asrarahmed,
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>> Ok, so what part do you get stuck on when you try to do this?  That is,
>> what sort of things do you already know how to do with files?
>>

Hi Asrarahmed,

one way would be to use the readlines method of the file object. That 
will get you a list of lines. From that, you could slice out the last 
line.

Would you know how to do that? If not, ask again.

Best,

Brian vdB