On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, amir chaouki wrote:
the problem is when i use the seek function on windows it gives me
false results other then the results on *ux. the file that i work with
are very large about 10mb.
If you still care about this problem, you should take some of the other
suggestions to heart; post some code, state what you expected, and what
actually happened, and how they're different.
But my crystal ball says you're trying to do a seek on a text file,
which has restrictions. Once you've called it a text file, you're
telling the system to translate cr/lf pairs into lf, which changes the
apparent size. So seek has no way to reproduce what reading lines does.
To quote the docs at http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html :
"If the file is opened in text mode (without 'b'), only offsets returned
by tell() <http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file.tell> are
legal. Use of other offsets causes undefined behavior."
DaveA
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