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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: python file API
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:07:41 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2012-09-25, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:22:05 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt
><ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> Am 24.09.2012 23:49, schrieb Dave Angel:
>> > And what approach would you use for positioning relative to
>> > end-of-file?  That's currently done with an optional second
>>  > parameter to seek() method.
>> 
>> Negative indices.
>>
>
> 	Which still doesn't handle the third seek mode -- relative to
> current position.

 fileobj.pos += <whatever>

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