Get last n lines of a file, similar to tail

Question

I\'m writing a log file viewer for a web application and for that I want to paginate through the lines of the log file. The items in the file are line based with the newest

Answer 1

There are some existing implementations of tail on pypi which you can install using pip:

• mtFileUtil
• multitail
• log4tailer
• ...

Depending on your situation, there may be advantages to using one of these existing tools.