File Reading , Reverse Direction

[Scott David Daniels]

Reading backwards is tough, but reading forwards from a guaranteed
conservative guess is pretty easy:

    file.seek(-2*MAX_LINE, 2)
    lines = file.readlines()[-2:]

"Ratnakar Malla" <rmalla1 at lsu.edu> wrote in message
news:3B60F7EC.5275E026 at lsu.edu...
> I need to read from ... [the] 2 lines at the bottom of ... [a very long]
file.
> 1) Can i read the file in the reverse direction , so that I dont lose
> time?
> 2) If so how??


-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org