Python file.tell gives wrong value location

Question

I am trying to extract a number of locations from an existing file using Python. This is my current code for extracting the locations:

    self.fh = open( f         


        

Answer 1

I guess I dont understand the issue

>>> fh = open('test.txt')
>>> fh.tell()
0L
>>> fh.read(1)
'"'
>>> fh.tell()
1L
>>> fh.read(5)
'a" \n"'
>>> fh.tell()
7L