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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def seek(self, offset: int = 0, *args, **kwargs):
 """ A shortcut to ``self.fp.seek``. """


        return self.fp.seek(offset, *args, **kwargs)