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DIY: Read N Characters Given Read4 II — Call Multiple Times

Explore how to implement the read(n) function with the read4 API to read characters from a file in Python. Understand how to handle multiple calls and buffer management as per interview-style problems, gaining practical coding interview skills.

Problem statement

Suppose that you can only read a given File using a specific API method called read4. You will implement the read method to read n characters from the File. This read method can be called multiple times.

read4() API:

The read4() API reads the next four consecutive characters from the File, until the File no longer has any characters that need to be read. After reading, the read4() method writes the characters into the array named buff.

The read4() method uses its ...