yeah, I could have done that too, but...I'm happy, and so is Sergiusz.  I
guess I don't see the problem.

I was mistaken, this is very much like tail -F, I just didn't read that
very carefully.  The biggest difference is that this reads the entire file
initially instead of starting near the end. (yes, you could easily do that
with tail too).

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012/9/21 Mike Buland <xagafinelle@gmail.com>:
> > You haven't missed anything, well, it's more like "tail --follow=name
> > <file>' but instead of piping the output of tail into another program for
> > processing, this just does all the work in python.  Not only was it fun
> to
> > write, but I like the fact that I don't need to chain more programs
> > together.
>
> Surely you could start `tail' with the subprocess module and
> process its output line-by-line?
>
> --
> Jason Dusek
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>