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Reputation: 31
Skipping data in a binary file in Python
I'm writing a file reader for my (binary) format and I sometimes need to skip some portion of the file.
I could do fileobject.read(howmuchtoskip) for that, but I guess that will load the unneeded part to memory and will be slow.
Can I just set the "index" of the "pointer" or whatever that's called?
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