How do i read just the last line of a text file?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 29 May 2005 at 04:42 GMT, nephish wrote:
> Hey there.
> i want to set a variable to represent the last line of a text file
> how do i do that?
> or even better, how do i create a list of the lines of a text file?

from sys import argv          ## Import argv from sys module

file = open(argv[1])          ## Open the file given on the command line
all_lines = file.readlines()  ## Read all the lines
last_line = all_lines[-1]     ## Assign the last line


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