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

If you are on linux you implement a non-blocking implementation in python in the following way.

import subprocess
subprocess.call('xterm -title log -hold -e \"tail -f filename\"&', shell=True, executable='/bin/csh')
print "Done"