Question

Write the use and syntax for the following method:

seek()

Answer 1

seek() method is used to position the file object at a particular position in a file.

The syntax of seek() is
file_object.seek(offset [, reference_point])

In the above syntax, offset is the number of bytes by which the file object is to be moved.

reference_point indicates the starting position of the file object. That is, with reference to which position, the offset has to be counted. It can have any of the following values:
0 – beginning of the file
1 – current position of the file
2 – end of file

By default, the value of reference_point is 0, i.e. the offset is counted from the beginning of the file.