Quake3 logger for the raspberry pi that outputs to an attached HD44780 LCD using my library for it

q3lcd.py

from hd44780 import HD44780
from os import stat
from time import sleep

lcd = HD44780()

lcd.message("  Quake3 Logger\nCommence killing...")

logfile_name = 'game.log'

logfile = open(logfile_name,'r')

stats = stat(logfile_name)

size = stats[6]

logfile.seek(size)

while 1:
    where = logfile.tell()
    line = logfile.readline()
    if not line:
        sleep(2)
        logfile.seek(where)
    else:
        if '^7' in line:
            line = line.replace('^7','')
            line = line.replace('^2','')
            line = "%s\n%s" % (line[:16],line[16:32])
            lcd = HD44780()
            lcd.message(line)

start.sh

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/vc/lib ./ioquake3.arm 1 &> game.log &
sudo python q3lcd.py