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f = open('/tmp/workfile', 'r+')
f.write('0123456789abcdef')
f.seek(5)     # Go to the 6th byte in the file
print f.read(1)        
f.seek(-3, 2) # Go to the 3rd byte before the end
print f.read(1)
f.close()