def update(anchor, handle=None):
    """Update an anchor based on the current contents of its source file.

    Args:
        anchor: The `Anchor` to be updated.
        handle: File-like object containing contents of the anchor's file. If
            `None`, then this function will open the file and read it.

    Returns: A new `Anchor`, possibly identical to the input.

    Raises:
        ValueError: No alignments could be found between old anchor and new
            text.
        AlignmentError: If no anchor could be created. The message of the
            exception will say what the problem is.

    """
    if handle is None:
        with anchor.file_path.open(mode='rt') as fp:
            source_text = fp.read()
    else:
        source_text = handle.read()
        handle.seek(0)

    ctxt = anchor.context

    a_score, alignments = align(ctxt.full_text,
                                source_text,
                                score,
                                gap_penalty)
    # max_score = len(ctxt.full_text) * 3

    try:
        alignment = next(alignments)
    except StopIteration:
        raise AlignmentError('No alignments for anchor: {}'.format(anchor))

    anchor_offset = ctxt.offset - len(ctxt.before)

    source_indices = tuple(
        s_idx
        for (a_idx, s_idx) in alignment
        if a_idx is not None
        if s_idx is not None
        if _index_in_topic(a_idx + anchor_offset, anchor))

    if not source_indices:
        raise AlignmentError(
            "Best alignment does not map topic to updated source.")

    return make_anchor(
        file_path=anchor.file_path,
        offset=source_indices[0],
        width=len(source_indices),
        context_width=anchor.context.width,
        metadata=anchor.metadata,
        handle=handle)
Update an anchor based on the current contents of its source file.

    Args:
        anchor: The `Anchor` to be updated.
        handle: File-like object containing contents of the anchor's file. If
            `None`, then this function will open the file and read it.

    Returns: A new `Anchor`, possibly identical to the input.

    Raises:
        ValueError: No alignments could be found between old anchor and new
            text.
        AlignmentError: If no anchor could be created. The message of the
            exception will say what the problem is.