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What does tell() return?
Short answer. The pointer's current position.
What is an absolute path?
The full address of a file.
Remember
| seek(n) moves, tell() reports |
| Relative path: from this folder |
| Absolute path: full address |
Where will Python read next? Ask the pointer. Seek of three moves the pointer to three. Read gives D A Y. Tell gives six. Seek moves the pointer, tell reports it. A relative path starts here. An absolute path is the full address.
This clip is from the full lesson: Text File Handling: Open, Read, Write and Append — 9 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: CBSE Class 12 Computer Science (083), CBSE Class 12 Computer Science (083), CBSE Class 12 Computer Science (083), Cambridge IGCSE Grade 9 Computer Science (0478)
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