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  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.
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+- 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.
+
 - Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
   :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
   an archive.  The new implementation is significantly faster and can