[Python-Dev] Fuzziness in io module specs

[MRAB]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> 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.
> 
But Python isn't C. :-)