Use seek() to move file pointer : File seek « File « Python

1. Python
2. File
3. File seek

Use seek() to move file pointer

f = open('/tmp/workfile', 'r+')
f.write('0123456789abcdef')
f.seek(5)     # Go to the 6th byte in the file
print f.read(1)        

f.seek(-3, 2) # Go to the 3rd byte before the end
print f.read(1)

f.close()

           
       

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