The seek position is a byte index into the contents of the file similar to an array index. Its also interesting that if we open file in append mode 'a', we cannot seek to file's beginning.

Jun 29, 2015 · The whence argument is optional and defaults to os.SEEK_SET or 0 (absolute file positioning); other values are os.SEEK_CUR or 1 (seek relative to the current position) and …

Mar 28, 2013 · What this means is that when you use a std::basic_fstream, which by default uses a std::basic_filebuf, the single file position is moved by both seekp() and seekg(); unless you use a …

From the documentation for Python 3.2 and up: In text files (those opened without a b in the mode string), only seeks relative to the beginning of the file are allowed (the exception being seeking to the …

Dec 18, 2014 · ^ This is the (0, SEEK_END) byte With this in mind, the very last byte of the file is the one found at (-1, SEEK_END) and thus the (-3, SEEK_END) byte is the 8. Note that this is consistent …

Mar 5, 2012 · To jump around an audio file, your server must be configured properly. The client sends byte range requests to seek and play certain regions of a file, so the server must response …

Feb 27, 2012 · In a SQL Server Execution plan what is the difference between an Index Scan and an Index Seek I'm on SQL Server 2005.

Jun 2, 2012 · Running on Tumbleweed with kernel 6.2.12-1-default Using the _GNU_SOURCE define should allow the use of SEEK_DATA as the whence value for lseek. According to the man page this …

Oct 25, 2017 · The top of the article should help you out: fileObject.seek(offset[, whence]) The method seek() sets the file's current position at offset. The whence argument is optional and defaults to 0, …

Apr 23, 2009 · seek (), then read (), then write () in python Asked 16 years, 7 months ago Modified 16 years, 7 months ago Viewed 26k times