How to read lines from end of a file?

[Matt Dunford]

Stig Bjorlykke <stigb at tihlde.org> writes:

>Hi all.

>I wonder how to read lines from end of a file, like this perl code:

>open FILE, "/tmp/file";
>foreach (reverse <FILE>) { ... }

>I am using it to get the latest entries in a log file.


>-- 
>Stig Bjrlykke
>Linux user

why not use the reverse method in python.

f = open( "/tmp/file", 'r' );
buffer = f.readlines()
buffer.reverse()
for line in buffer:
  # do what you want
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