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

[Chris Hengge]

Oh wow.. I totally missed that... nevermind.. ignore that question =D

On 10/19/06, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> >> file('filename.txt').readlines()[-1]
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> > Not to hijack the thread, but what stops you from just putting a
> > file.close() after your example line?
>
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> Which file should file.close() close?  The problem is that we don't have a
> handle on the particular file we want to close off.
>
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