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

On second thought, this is probably just as fast as anything here.

def tail( f, window=20 ):
    lines= ['']*window
    count= 0
    for l in f:
        lines[count%window]= l
        count += 1
    print lines[count%window:], lines[:count%window]

It's a lot simpler. And it does seem to rip along at a good pace.