Re: [Tutor] Trying to extract the last line of a text file

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:24:17 -0700

Not to hijack the thread, but what stops you from just putting a file.close() after your example line?

On 10/19/06, Chad Crabtree < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

file('filename.txt').readlines()[-1]

Some will say that this is no good because the file is still open.  However I've been told that when the object is cleaned the file is closed so it should be fine.
 



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