diff --git a/Lib/test/test_fileio.py b/Lib/test/test_fileio.py
index 928fbec..0eea86b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_fileio.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_fileio.py
@@ -197,6 +197,17 @@
             f.close()
             self.fail("no error for invalid mode: %s" % bad_mode)
 
+    def testTruncate(self):
+        f = _fileio._FileIO(TESTFN, 'w')
+        f.write(bytes(bytearray(range(10))))
+        self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 10)
+        f.truncate(5)
+        self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 10)
+        self.assertEqual(f.seek(0, os.SEEK_END), 5)
+        f.truncate(15)
+        self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 5)
+        self.assertEqual(f.seek(0, os.SEEK_END), 15)
+
     def testTruncateOnWindows(self):
         def bug801631():
             # SF bug <http://www.python.org/sf/801631>
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index f0b38b6..38c58c3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -87,6 +87,12 @@
         test_support.unlink(test_support.TESTFN)
 
     def write_ops(self, f):
+
+        self.assertEqual(f.write(b"blah."), 5)
+        f.truncate(0)
+        self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 5)
+        f.seek(0)
+
         self.assertEqual(f.write(b"blah."), 5)
         self.assertEqual(f.seek(0), 0)
         self.assertEqual(f.write(b"Hello."), 6)
@@ -98,8 +104,9 @@
         self.assertEqual(f.write(b"h"), 1)
         self.assertEqual(f.seek(-1, 2), 13)
         self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 13)
+
         self.assertEqual(f.truncate(12), 12)
-        self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 12)
+        self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 13)
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, f.seek, 0.0)
 
     def read_ops(self, f, buffered=False):
@@ -144,7 +151,7 @@
         self.assertEqual(f.tell(), self.LARGE + 2)
         self.assertEqual(f.seek(0, 2), self.LARGE + 2)
         self.assertEqual(f.truncate(self.LARGE + 1), self.LARGE + 1)
-        self.assertEqual(f.tell(), self.LARGE + 1)
+        self.assertEqual(f.tell(), self.LARGE + 2)
         self.assertEqual(f.seek(0, 2), self.LARGE + 1)
         self.assertEqual(f.seek(-1, 2), self.LARGE)
         self.assertEqual(f.read(2), b"x")
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py b/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py
index d538a7e..85b5e13 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         self.assertEqual(f.seek(0), 0)
         self.assertEqual(f.write(t("h")), 1)
         self.assertEqual(f.truncate(12), 12)
-        self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 12)
+        self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 1)
 
     def test_write(self):
         buf = self.buftype("hello world\n")
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@
         # truncate() accepts long objects
         self.assertEqual(memio.truncate(4L), 4)
         self.assertEqual(memio.getvalue(), buf[:4])
-        self.assertEqual(memio.tell(), 4)
+        self.assertEqual(memio.tell(), 6)
+        memio.seek(0, 2)
         memio.write(buf)
         self.assertEqual(memio.getvalue(), buf[:4] + buf)
         pos = memio.tell()