<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Ewing</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tim Peters wrote:<br><br>> Perhaps it has to do with the rest of his message ;-):<br>><br>>>>(which reminds me that speeding up handling of optional arguments<br>>>>to C functions would be an even better use of this energy)
<br><br>Until a few moments ago, I didn't know that str.startswith()<br>had any optional arguments, so I missed the significance of<br>that.</blockquote><div><br>I also didn't know about the optional arguments to startswith and wonder if they are much used or just cruft.
<br><br> Paul Prescod<br></div><br></div>