Undoing character read from file

[Emeka]

Hello All,

Say I have something like this:

mfile = open("cc.txt", "rb")
mcount = 0
mset = False
while True:
c = mfile.read(1)
if c == "e" and mset is True and mcount == 0:
    print c
    mfile.seek(-1,1)
    mcount = 1
    continue
elif c == "e" and mset is False and mcount == 0:
    print c
    mfile.seek(-1, 0)
    mcount = 1
    continue
elif c == "e" and mcount == 1:
    print c
    mcount = 0
    continue
print c
 if mset is False:
    mset = True
if len(c) == 0:
    break

cc.txt

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to question
him concerning this issue.

Is the above code the right way?

Regards, \Emeka

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Emeka <emekamicro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Neil,
>
> Thanks. Could you throw a simple example?
>
> Regards, \Emeka
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 2012-02-16, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> > On 16/02/2012 23:10, Emeka wrote:
>> >> Hello All,
>> >>
>> >> I know about seek and tell while using readline. What about if I am
>> >> using read, and I want to undo the last character I just read(to return
>> >> it back to the stream). How do I achieve this?
>> >>
>> > Try:
>> >
>> >      f.seek(-1, 1)
>> >
>> > It seeks -1 relative to the current position (the second
>> > argument defaults to 0 for relative to start of file).
>>
>> Unless it's a stream opened in binary mode this will not work.
>> You'd need to maintain a n-character length buffer instead, with
>> n being the maximum number of characters you'd like to be able to
>> put back.
>>
>> --
>> Neil Cerutti
>> --
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>>
>
>
>
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