Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!gordon From: John Gordon Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: seek operation in python Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:53:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <8b2bd328-08a6-4211-85c4-8d117d1aae1e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1430333601 17602 166.84.1.1 (29 Apr 2015 18:53:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:53:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 X-Received-Bytes: 1300 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2308050293 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89568 In <8b2bd328-08a6-4211-85c4-8d117d1aae1e@googlegroups.com> siva sankari R writes: > 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.! The seek() function doesn't return any data; it just relocates the file pointer. You still have to do a read operation to get data from the new location. -- John Gordon Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to gordon@panix.com watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'.