tests: replace truncate(1) with inline python
MSYS doesn't have truncate(1) installed by default, and FreeBSD looked unhappy
with the arguments provided.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8147
#if no-windows no-osx
$ mkdir -p xdgconf/hg
$ echo '[ui]' > xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ echo 'username = foobar' >> xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ XDG_CONFIG_HOME="`pwd`/xdgconf" ; export XDG_CONFIG_HOME
$ unset HGRCPATH
$ hg config ui.username 2>/dev/null
foobar
#endif