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Marco Sulla
Marco.Sulla.Python at gmail.com
Sat May 7 09:21:25 EDT 2022
On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 01:03, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Windows also uses <cr><lf> for the EOL marker, but Python's I/O system
> condenses that to just <lf> internally (for TEXT mode) -- so using the
> length of a string so read to compute a file position may be off-by-one for
> each EOL in the string.
So there's no way to reliably read lines in reverse in text mode using
seek and read, but the only option is readlines?
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