[Python-checkins] r80720 - in python/trunk: Lib/_pyio.pyLib/test/test_io.py Misc/NEWS Modules/_io/bufferedio.c Modules/_io/bytesio.cModules/_io/iobase.cModules/_io/textio.c

[Nick Coghlan]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> Either way, reverting it should be discussed on python-dev. I definitely
>> have grave doubts about backporting this to the maintenance branches,
>> and I'm not a particularly big fan of adding it to a release that is
>> already in beta either.
> 
> Silencing a true and potentially critical error is a bug IMO.
> Moreover, we'd better establish sane semantics in the io module before it gets
> widespread acceptance - this was the rationale for the truncate() API change,
> approved by Guido (while I was a bit reluctant).

I can live with that.

Cheers,
Nick.

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