Code reviewMediumcr-g536

Subject Code reviewLevel Mid–Senior~18 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Review this Python function that truncates a user comment to fit a 100-byte DB column and streams it.

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Code to reviewpython

1def truncate_comment(text: str, max_bytes: int = 100) -> bytes:2    encoded = text.encode("utf-8")3    if len(encoded) <= max_bytes:4        return encoded5    return encoded[:max_bytes]

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