Get last n lines of a file, similar to tail

Question

I\'m writing a log file viewer for a web application and for that I want to paginate through the lines of the log file. The items in the file are line based with the newest

Answer 1

import time

attemps = 600
wait_sec = 5
fname = "YOUR_PATH"

with open(fname, "r") as f:
    where = f.tell()
    for i in range(attemps):
        line = f.readline()
        if not line:
            time.sleep(wait_sec)
            f.seek(where)
        else:
            print line, # already has newline