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How to read only the last 200 bytes from very BIG file?

Feb 6th, 2007 18:34
chao chen, Washington Corrêa, Thomas Rothmayer,

Here it goes:
archive = '/test.txt'
length = os.path.getsize(archive)
f = file(archive, 'r')
f.seek(length-200)
print f.read(200)
ok?
Junior
f = open('test.txt','r')
f.seek(-200,2)
last200 = f.read(200)
CChen