How to streamingly read text file and display whenever updated text

[James Harris]

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> #!/usr/bin/python
> import time
> f = open('/home/martin/Downloads/a.txt')

Looks like you are on Unix so you can do this from the shell

  tail -F /home/martin/Downloads/a.txt

James