python - Streaming text from a file while its been written to -

is there better , cleaner way stream data text file been written in real time?

at moment im using server simulate data being written continuously , using seek() method read added data , print screen.

the problem im having testing if file been written or not , if not sleep short period test if been written generate , output print screen.

import time seek1 = 198707 seek2 = 198719 file_open = open('c:\users\jay\desktop\tools\uni-    server\uniserverz\core\\apache2\logs\\access.log') #c:\users\jay\desktop\tools\uni-server\uniserverz\core\apache2\logs #c:\users\jay\pycharmprojects\parsly\\access.log  def generate_list(read_lines):#properly build seek positional checks.     #file_object.seek(seek_position)     #lines = file_object.readlines()     in read_lines:         yield   def seek_new_postion(generator):     listt = []     seek = file_open.tell()     old_seek = none     counter = 0     while 1:         if old_seek == seek , not counter == 5:             print "sleeping"             time.sleep(1)             counter +=1         else:             p = generate_list(file_open.readlines())             in p:                 print             time.sleep(1)             print "___________________________"             print "start seek: %s" % file_open.tell()             print "old seek: %s" % old_seek             print "___________________________"             old_seek = seek             seek = file_open.tell()             counter = 0  print file_open.tell() in seek_new_postion("test"): print