Opening the file in writing mode

[Abdul Abdul]

Hello,

In the Python documentation, when opening the file in write mode, it
mentions the following:

*writing (truncating the file if it already exists)*
What is meant by "truncating" here? Is it simply overwriting the file
already existing?

Thanks.
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