26.01.2011, 12:59, "Xavier Heruacles" <xheruacles at gmail.com>: > I have do some log processing which is usually huge. The length of each line is variable. How can I get the last line?? Don't tell me to use readlines or something like linecache... -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list Well, it's very simple. Don't store the whole log in one file. Create new one and archive the old one every night. You will also get a lot of free space this way. Or store it in some MongoDB's capped collection. It's fast and queryable (if you need). Good luck! -- jabber: k.bx at ya.ru