Size of an open file object

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Is there a way to find the size of a file object that is currently open?

Specifically, I am working with the tarfile module to create tarfiles, but I don't want my tarfile to exceed a certain size. As far as I know, tarfile objects are file-like objects, so I imagine a generic solution would work.
Jan 22, 2019 in Python by ana1504.k
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You can use the following and try :

$ ls -la chardet-1.0.1.tgz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vinko vinko 179218 2008-10-20 17:49 chardet-1.0.1.tgz
$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 22:53:39)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> f = open('chardet-1.0.1.tgz','rb')
>>> f.seek(0,2)
>>> f.tell()
179218L
answered Jan 22, 2019 by SDeb
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