It turned out that switching to binary I/O made seek do what he was expecting. I'm guessing the transparent crlf to lf conversions in windows text I/O get seek() a bit perplexed, because it transparently changes the number of bytes.
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > amir chaouki wrote: > > > the problem is when i use the seek function on windows it gives me > > false results > > What do you mean "false results"? What does this even mean? > > Please show us: > > * what you do > * what result you expect > * what result you actually get > > > > -- > Steven > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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