Inexpensive was to add seek to a filetype object

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Published on 2010-04-16T12:59:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 13:03 UTC
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PdfFileReader reads the content from a pdf file to create an object.

I am querying the pdf from a cdn via urllib.urlopen(), this provides me a file like object, which has no seek.

Now, what can I do to avoid writing to disk and reading it again via file().

Thanks in advance.

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