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

Not the first example using a deque, but a simpler one. This one is general: it works on any iterable object, not just a file.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import collections
def tail(iterable, N):
    deq = collections.deque()
    for thing in iterable:
        if len(deq) >= N:
            deq.popleft()
        deq.append(thing)
    for thing in deq:
        yield thing
if __name__ == '__main__':
    for line in tail(sys.stdin,10):
        sys.stdout.write(line)