Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: This is not always possible. Consider following example:
>>> open('temp.txt', 'wb').write(b'+BDAEMQQyBDMENA-') 16 >>> f = open('temp.txt', 'r+', encoding='utf-7') >>> f.read(2) 'аб' What should be the result of truncating? I think it would be better to not implement truncate() for text files at all. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26158> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com