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Re:How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of ... by jodrellblank on Monday October 03, 2011 @04:01PM (#3067759)
Your split and join seem redundnant, and open defaults to read-only.

  print open('whatever.file').readlines()[:-10]
But still, don't do that on any log too big to read into memory.
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