[Tutor] read_help

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:45:38PM -0500, Karshi wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question about  the "read()" method.  For example, if I wanna
> read the file which has  size=200bytes. I want to read only 100bytes
> by skipping 2 bytes. How do I do it in Python?
> 
> ---In Matlab it will look like this:
> ---file=fopen(somefile, 'rb')
> ---read=fread(file, 100, 2)

>>> f = open('filename','rb')
>>> f.seek(2)
>>> data = f.read(100)

If you're on unix you don't need the 'rb'.

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