How to perform read and seek in one command python?

Question

instead on writing can we write this in one command

`f=open('spiderman.txt','w') f.seek(2) f.read()'

The seek and read command

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 26 '21 at 10:52

Firstly, you must change mode to reading by removing 'w' argument, that opens your file for writing.

with open('spiderman.txt') as f:
    f.seek(2)
    text = f.read()

Secondly, you can use slices to cut off your text (Understanding slice notation)

with open('spiderman.txt') as f:
    text = f.read()[2:]

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