.truncate()
The .truncate()
file method allows the user to resize the file to a given number of bytes when the file is accessed through the append mode.
Syntax
file.truncate(n)
Example
Use .truncate()
to change the size of the gullivers_travels.txt file from 603,908 bytes to 100:
f = open("gullivers_travels.txt", "a")f.truncate(100)f.close()f = open("gullivers_travels.txt", "r")print(f.read())
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