diff Modules/_io/stringio.c @ 58629:311db7a68a82

Merged revisions 77890 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r77890 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-31 23:26:04 +0100 (dim., 31 janv. 2010) | 7 lines - Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon. ........
author Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
date Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:47:27 +0000
parents b354c1b6b476
children 55db60fcab54
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--- a/Modules/_io/stringio.c	Sun Jan 31 22:34:52 2010 +0000
+++ b/Modules/_io/stringio.c	Sun Jan 31 22:47:27 2010 +0000
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@
     "Truncate size to pos.\n"
     "\n"
     "The pos argument defaults to the current file position, as\n"
-    "returned by tell().  Imply an absolute seek to pos.\n"
+    "returned by tell().  The current file position is unchanged.\n"
     "Returns the new absolute position.\n");
 
 static PyObject *
@@ -390,7 +390,6 @@
             return NULL;
         self->string_size = size;
     }
-    self->pos = size;
 
     return PyLong_FromSsize_t(size);
 }