[3.11] gh-107801: Improve the docs of the SEEK_* constants (GH-108099) (#108100)

(cherry picked from commit 02079b0)

Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Doc/library/os.rst

@@ -1070,16 +1070,26 @@ as internal buffering of data.
           SEEK_CUR
           SEEK_END
 
-   Parameters to the :func:`lseek` function. Their values are 0, 1, and 2,
-   respectively.
+   Parameters to the :func:`lseek` function and the :meth:`~io.IOBase.seek`
+   method on :term:`file-like objects <file object>`,
+   for whence to adjust the file position indicator.
+
+   :const:`SEEK_SET`
+      Adjust the file position relative to the beginning of the file.
+   :const:`SEEK_CUR`
+      Adjust the file position relative to the current file position.
+   :const:`SEEK_END`
+      Adjust the file position relative to the end of the file.
+
+   Their values are 0, 1, and 2, respectively.
 
 
 .. data:: SEEK_HOLE
           SEEK_DATA
 
    Parameters to the :func:`lseek` function and the :meth:`~io.IOBase.seek`
-   method on file objects, for seeking file data and holes on sparsely
-   allocated files.
+   method on :term:`file-like objects <file object>`,
+   for seeking file data and holes on sparsely allocated files.
 
    :data:`!SEEK_DATA`
       Adjust the file offset to the next location containing data,