The tell() Method



The method tell() returns the current position of the file read/write pointer within the file.

Syntax

Following is the syntax for tell() method −

fileObject.tell()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

This method returns the current position of the file read/write pointer within the file.

The following example shows the usage of tell() method −

Assuming that 'foo.txt' file contains following text −

This is 1st line
This is 2nd line
This is 3rd line
This is 4th line
This is 5th line

Example

fo = open("foo.txt", "r+")
print ("Name of the file: ", fo.name)
line = fo.readline()
print ("Read Line: %s" % (line))
pos=fo.tell()
print ("current position : ",pos)

# Close the opened file
fo.close()

When we run the above program, it produces the following output

Name of the file: foo.txt
Read Line: This is 1st line
Current Position: 18
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