Remove very last character in file

Question

After looking all over the Internet, I\'ve come to this.

Let\'s say I have already made a text file that reads: Hello World

Well, I want to remo

Answer 1

In case you are not reading the file in binary mode, where you have only 'w' permissions, I can suggest the following.

f.seek(f.tell() - 1, os.SEEK_SET)
f.write('')

In this code above, f.seek() will only accept f.tell() b/c you do not have 'b' access. then you can set the cursor to the starting of the last element. Then you can delete the last element by an empty string.