How to streamingly read text file and display whenever updated text

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 05 Oct 2013 20:17:32 -0700, galeomaga wrote:


> if __name__ == '__main__':
> 	try:
> 		thread.start_new_thread( readfile, ("Thread-1", ) )
> 	except:
>    		print "Error: unable to start thread"


Why not? If you can't start a thread, you have a problem with your code. 
How do you expect to debug this problem?


"I find it amusing when novice programmers believe their main job is 
preventing programs from crashing. More experienced programmers realize 
that correct code is great, code that crashes could use improvement, but 
incorrect code that doesn’t crash is a horrible nightmare."
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-- 
Steven