How can I tail a log file in Python?

Question

I\'d like to make the output of tail -F or something similar available to me in Python without blocking or locking. I\'ve found some really old code to do that here, but I\'

Answer 1

Adapting Ijaz Ahmad Khan's answer to only yield lines when they are completely written (lines end with a newline char) gives a pythonic solution with no external dependencies:

def follow(file) -> Iterator[str]:
    """ Yield each line from a file as they are written. """
    line = ''
    while True:
        tmp = file.readline()
        if tmp is not None:
            line += tmp
            if line.endswith("\n"):
                yield line
                line = ''
        else:
            time.sleep(0.1)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    for line in follow(open("test.txt", 'r')):
        print(line, end='')