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

[Chad Crabtree]

On 10/19/06, Chris Hengge <pyro9219 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd personally do something like this.
>
> file = open(myfile, 'r')
> fileContents = file.readlines() # read the entire document into memory for
> speed.
> file.close()
>
> print fileContents[-1] # This is the last line.


This works as well

file('filename.txt').readlines()[-1]

Some will say that this is no good because the file is still open.  However
I've been told that when the object is cleaned the file is closed so it
should be fine.
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