Re-open files in Python?

Question

Say I have this simple python script:

file = open(\'C:\\\\some_text.txt\')
print file.readlines()
print file.readlines()

When it is run, th

Answer 1

You can reset the file pointer by calling seek():

file.seek(0)

will do it. You need that line after your first readlines(). Note that file has to support random access for the above to work.