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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?

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Jason Dusek
pgp // solidsnack // C1EBC57DC55144F35460C8DF1FD4C6C1FED18A2B