Python tail is a simple implementation of GNU tail and head.
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Python tail is a simple implementation of GNU tail and head.
It provides 3 main functions that can be performed on any file-like object that supports seek() and tell().
tail - read lines from the end of a file
head - read lines from the top of a file
follow - read lines as a file grows
It also comes with pytail, a command line version offering the same functionality as GNU tail. This can be particularly useful on Windows systems that have no tail equivalent.
Installation
Install with pip or easy_install.
pip install tailer
Examples
import tailer f = open('test.txt', 'w') for i in range(11): f.write('Line %d\\n' % (i + 1)) f.close()
Tail
# Get the last 3 lines of the file tailer.tail(open('test.txt'), 3) # ['Line 9', 'Line 10', 'Line 11']
Head
# Get the first 3 lines of the file tailer.head(open('test.txt'), 3) # ['Line 1', 'Line 2', 'Line 3']
Follow
# Follow the file as it grows for line in tailer.follow(open('test.txt')): print line
Running Tests
Tailer currently only has doctests.
Run tests with nose:
nosetests --with-doctest src/tailer
Run tests with doctest:
python -m doctest -v src/tailer/__init__.py
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