seek() and tell() works with opaque values, called cookies. This is close to low level details, but it is not pythonic. (Non-pythonic and non-portable behaviour) Currently feeding seek() with wrong values could lead to unexpected behaviour. There should be a safer abstraction to these two basic functions.
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