@classmethod
    def tail(cls, fname, window):
        if window <= 0:
            raise ValueError('invalid window value %r' % window)
        with cls.open(fname) as f:
            BUFSIZ = 1024
            # True if open() was overridden and file was opened in text
            # mode. In that case readlines() will return unicode strings
            # instead of bytes.
            encoded = getattr(f, 'encoding', False)
            CR = '\n' if encoded else b'\n'
            data = '' if encoded else b''
            f.seek(0, os.SEEK_END)
            fsize = f.tell()
            block = -1
            exit = False
            while not exit:
                step = (block * BUFSIZ)
                if abs(step) >= fsize:
                    f.seek(0)
                    newdata = f.read(BUFSIZ - (abs(step) - fsize))
                    exit = True
                else:
                    f.seek(step, os.SEEK_END)
                    newdata = f.read(BUFSIZ)
                data = newdata + data
                if data.count(CR) >= window:
                    break
                else:
                    block -= 1
            return data.splitlines()[-window:]
Read last N lines from file fname.
dataset/ETHPy150Open harryliu/edwin/edwinAgent/site_packages/logwatch_glob.py/LogWatcher.tail