> I have a closed-source application which creates log files. I'd like to > capture this logfile data as it is crated, and do clever things with it! > > Is this possible? I guess it must be, because there are "tail" type > utilities for Windows...
Depends on whether the output goes to stdout or stderr or a hard coded file. Usually log files are hard coded so you need to write a tail like utility. You could do this but why not just download a free one such as that from cygwin? If you must write your own start off by looking at the C source code for the standard Linux/Cygwin tail program to see how they do it. Its probably easy to convert that to Python and safer than guessing the best approach... Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
