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Reading and Writing Files

28.

How can you read and print the last 5 lines from a file named "log.txt"?

with open("log.txt", "r") as file:
    lines = file.readlines()
    for line in lines[-5:]:
        print(line)

last_five_lines("log.txt")

with open("log.txt", "r") as file:
    print(file.read()[-5:])

lines = open("log.txt").readlines()[-5:]
for line in lines:
    print(line)

Answer: Option

Explanation:

Using readlines() and list slicing to get the last 5 lines.

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