Fredrik Lundh wrote: > zcat|tail is a LOT faster.
and here's the "right way" to use that:
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
p1 = Popen(["zcat", filename], stdout=PIPE)
p2 = Popen(["tail", "-1"], stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=PIPE)
last_line = p2.communicate()[0]
(on my small sample, this is roughly 15 times faster than the empty for loop)
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