https://github.com/pykit3/k3cat

Just like nix command cat or tail, it continuously scan a file line by line.
https://github.com/pykit3/k3cat

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Just like nix command cat or tail, it continuously scan a file line by line.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pykit3/k3cat
• Owner: pykit3
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-08-18T02:56:42.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-08-28T12:35:59.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-28T08:25:33.552Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: python
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://blog.openacid.com
• Size: 38.1 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# k3cat

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Just like nix command cat or tail, it continuously scan a file line by line.

k3cat is a component of [pykit3] project: a python3 toolkit set.

Just like nix command cat or tail, it continuously scan a file line by line.

It provides with two way for user to handle lines: as a generator or specifying

a handler function.

It also remembers the offset of the last scanning in a file in `/tmp/`.

If a file does not change(inode number does not change), it scans from the last

offset, or it scan from the first byte.

# Install

```

pip install k3cat

```

# Synopsis

```python

import sys

import k3cat

fn = sys.argv[1]

for x in k3cat.Cat(fn, strip=True).iterate(timeout=0):

    print(x)

```

#   Author

Zhang Yanpo (张炎泼) 

#   Copyright and License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Zhang Yanpo (张炎泼) 

[pykit3]: https://github.com/pykit3