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 use the sh library.
To install it, we run
pip install sh
For instance, we write
from sh import tail
for line in tail("-f", "/var/log/some_log_file.log", _iter=True):
print(line)
to call tail with the options for tail and the file we want to run tail for.
And we set _iter to True to return a generator that returns new content whenever the file is updated.
Then we use a for loop to loop through the lines and print them.
Conclusion
To tail a log file in Python, we can use the sh library.
