How to streamingly read text file and display whenever updated text

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/10/2013 05:06, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 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."
> -- Chris Smith
>
> http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wrote/
>
>

Roughly translated for the benefit of newbies remove the try/except :)

Also note that a bare except is extremely bad practice, e.g. you can't 
stop rogue programs with a CTRL-C

-- 
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Violets are blue,
Most poems rhyme,
But this one doesn't.

Mark Lawrence