Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!newsfeed.tele2net.at!news.panservice.it!feed.xsnews.nl!border02.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder04.ams.xsnews.nl!abp002.ams.xsnews.nl!frontend-F10-15.ams.news.kpn.nl From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: seek operation in python Organization: Decebal Computing References: <8b2bd328-08a6-4211-85c4-8d117d1aae1e@googlegroups.com> X-Face: "(y8cC@tg_12{">GF'UXTW]FHI2wMiZNrnf'1EFQ&O#$m:f#O7+7}kR,v+Pti8=Vi/Z"g^?b"E X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:31:20 +0200 Message-ID: <874mnxx0fb.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qY0xZd2XfjE82v1BQJ1Ac6kE/k0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.207.62.244 X-Trace: 1430397891 news.kpn.nl 21089 81.207.62.244@kpn/81.207.62.244:37993 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89630 Op Wednesday 29 Apr 2015 20:08 CEST schreef siva sankari R.: > file=open("input","r") > line=file.seek(7) > print line > > The above code is supposed to print a line but it prints "none". I > don't know where the mistake is. Help.! You could use my module: https://github.com/CecilWesterhof/PythonLibrary/blob/master/filebasedMessages.py Then use: from filebasedMessages import get_indexed_message get_indexed_message('input.cpp', 7) -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof