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Q: containter.logs follow vs stream ? non-blocking logs ?

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Description

I think documentation does not really explain the follow argument in container.log function...

what does it do ?

and second question - is there a way to get logs(..., stream=True) to be non blocking ?

What I'm trying to achieve: I have 10+ containers running and they write time to time some data to stdout...
I want to make a script that periodically pulls latest logs for each of them...

but container.log(stream=True) is blocked until a line appears in stdout..

is there a way to make it non-blocking ?

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Start with the container.log entry point and the follow and stream=True arguments described in the issue. Clarify what follow does and determine whether streamed logs can be consumed non-blockingly for periodic polling. Done means the documentation answers both questions and accurately describes the observed behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
docker, python
Domain
api, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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