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Sun Sep 20 10:33:33 CEST 2009 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-September/091928.html

Pascal Chambon wrote:

>   Concerning the naming of truncate(), would it be possible to deprecate 
> it and alias it to "resize()" ? It's not very gratifying to have 
> duplicated methods at the beginning of a major release, but I feel too 
> that "truncate" is a misleading term, that had better be replaced asap.

There's something to be said for that, but there's also
something to be said for following established conventions,
and there's a long-established precedent from the C library
for having a function called truncate() that behaves this
way.

-- 
Greg

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