[Python-Dev] Fuzziness in io module specs (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Sep 20 10:33:33 CEST 2009
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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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