I wanted to read last 50 bytes from a file.
I've used the following code to read first 50 bytes.
def read_file(filepath):
open_file = open(filepath)
return "".join("{:02x}".format(int(ord(c))) for c in open_file.read(50))
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5Read this: [How to read the last MB of a very large text file](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19046369/how-to-read-the-last-mb-of-a-very-large-text-file) – narendra-choudhary Dec 15 '15 at 10:09
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It reads by line, not in bytes – jOSe Dec 15 '15 at 10:13
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@jOSe The first answer on the duplicate post does not read by line. – Holt Dec 15 '15 at 10:14
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Thank you. I'm trying out the code....! – jOSe Dec 15 '15 at 10:53
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How to return the data, as I mentioned in my question ? – jOSe Dec 15 '15 at 10:59