How can I read last 10 bytes from a text file?

Question

Welcome to demofile.txt
This file is for testing purposes.
Good Luck!

Above Content Is In My Text File

How to read last 10 bytes from that text file? The expected output is:

Good Luck!

Possible duplicate of [seek() function?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11696472/seek-function) — Ken Y-N, Feb 15 '19 at 07:51

DirtyBit · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-15T07:57:12.827

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in_file.seek(-10, 2)  # where 2 denotes the reference point being the end of the file

So then:

in_file = open("demofile.txt", "rb") # opening for [r]eading as [b]inary
in_file.seek(-10, 2)
s = in_file.read(10)
print(s)

OUTPUT:

b'Good Luck!'

edited Feb 15 '19 at 07:57

answered Feb 15 '19 at 07:50

DirtyBit

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