Sometimes, we want to tail a log file in Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to tail a log file in Python.
How to tail a log file in Python?
To tail a log file in Python, we can run tail with the sh module.
For instance, we write:
from sh import tail
for line in tail("-f", "foo.txt", _iter=True):
print(line)
We call tail with the file name and _iter set to True to let us run an infinite loop and print out line which has the output.
Conclusion
To tail a log file in Python, we can run tail with the sh module.
