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how do i read the last line of a text file?

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how do i read the last line of a text file?

May 29th, 2005

Hey there.
i want to set a variable to represent the last line of a text file
how do i do that?
or even better, how do i create a list of the lines of a text file?
any suggestions?

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Re: how do i read the last line of a text file?

May 29th, 2005

Use readlines() to get a list of lines ...

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# read a text file as a list of lines
# find the last line, change to a file you have
fileHandle = open ( 'test3.txt',"r" )
lineList = fileHandle.readlines()
fileHandle.close()
print lineList
print "The last line is:"
print lineList[len(lineList)-1]
# or simply
print lineList[-1]
# read a text file as a list of lines
# find the last line, change to a file you have
fileHandle = open ( 'test3.txt',"r" )
lineList = fileHandle.readlines()
fileHandle.close()
print lineList
print "The last line is:"
print lineList[len(lineList)-1]
# or simply
print lineList[-1]