Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
Since the file is a text file, such seeking is not possible.
I've now updated the whole section about files; in particular there was
also an outdated description of text vs. binary mode.
Committed r65595.
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New submission from Jim Sizelove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The Input and Output section of the Python 3.0 tutorial
(http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/tutorial/inputoutput.html) shows an
example of seeking in a negative direction from the end of a file. I
get an IOError when attempting to run the example
