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Problem 2 — Last 10 lines of a file
Write a program named p2.py which takes the same file (or download it from the web)

/usr/share/doc/git/contrib/subtree/COPYING

and prints out the last 10 lines

Hint: you can use list() function

lines = list(fh)

to read in all the lines of the file as a list, or equivalently

lines = fh.readlines()

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def read_last_lines(filename, no_of_lines=10):
   file = open(filename,'r')
   lines = file.readlines()
   last_lines = lines[-no_of_lines:]
   for line in last_lines:
       print(line)
   file.close()


if __name__ == "__main__":
   filename = "file.txt"
   read_last_lines(filename,2)

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