f.seek() unwanted output

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Mon Jan 5 09:54:51 EST 2009


On Jan 5, 8:52 am, "thomasvang... at gmail.com" <thomasvang... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm having trouble with a script that is printing the output of f.seek
> () whereas in the documentation it is quoted not to have any output:
>
> ----
> file.seek(offset[, whence])¶
>
>     Set the file’s current position, like stdio‘s fseek. The whence
> argument is optional and defaults to os.SEEK_SET or 0 (absolute file
> positioning); other values are os.SEEK_CUR or 1 (seek relative to the
> current position) and os.SEEK_END or 2 (seek relative to the file’s
> end). There is no return value.
> --------------
>
> I have a file in memory.
> when i try f.seek(0) #or any other value in f.tell()
> it gives me 0 as output:
>
> the following script illustrates my 'problem'>>> for a in range(10):
>
>         f.seek(a)
>
> 0
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
> 9
>
>
>
> I don't want python to produce output when setting the file pointer.
> Any help woul be appreciated.
> Kind regards,
> Thomas

You can also avoid the output by assigning the output to something:

>>> for a in range(10):
         dummy=f.seek(a)




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