k3cat 0.1.1

Like nix command cat or tail, continuously scan a file line by line

k3cat

Just like nix command cat or tail, it continuously scan a file line by line.

k3cat is a component of pykit3 project: a python3 toolkit set.

Just like nix command cat or tail, it continuously scan a file line by line.

It provides with two way for user to handle lines: as a generator or specifying a handler function.

It also remembers the offset of the last scanning in a file in /tmp/. If a file does not change(inode number does not change), it scans from the last offset, or it scan from the first byte.

Install

pip install k3cat

Synopsis

import sys

import k3cat

fn = sys.argv[1]
for x in k3cat.Cat(fn, strip=True).iterate(timeout=0):
    print(x)

Author

Zhang Yanpo (张炎泼) [e-mail]

Copyright and License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Zhang Yanpo (张炎泼) [e-mail]