On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 3:29 PM Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis650@gmail.com> wrote:
One may also continue using ``startswith()`` and ``endswith()`` methods for control flow instead of testing the lengths as above.
That's worse, in a sense, since "foofoobar".removeprefix("foo") returns "foobar" which still starts with "foo".
I meant that startswith might be called before removeprefix, as it was in the ``deccheck.py`` example.
Not having read the full PEP, that wasn't clear to me. Sorry!
If I saw that in a code review I'd flag it for non-obviousness. One should use 'string != new_string' unless there is severe pressure to squeeze every nanosecond out of this particular code (and it better be inside an inner loop).
I thought that someone had suggested that such things go in the PEP,
I'm sure someone did. But not every bit of feedback is worth acting upon, and sometimes a weird compromise is cooked up that addresses somebody's nit while making things less understandable for everyone else. I think this is one of those cases.
but since these are more stylistic considerations, I would be more than happy to trim it down to just
The builtin ``str`` class will gain two new methods which will behave as follows when ``type(self) is type(prefix) is str``::
def removeprefix(self: str, prefix: str, /) -> str: if self.startswith(prefix): return self[len(prefix):] else: return self[:]
def removesuffix(self: str, suffix: str, /) -> str: # suffix='' should not call self[:-0]. if suffix and self.endswith(suffix): return self[:-len(suffix)] else: return self[:]
These methods, even when called on ``str`` subclasses, should always return base ``str`` objects.
Methods with the corresponding semantics will be added to the builtin ``bytes`` and ``bytearray`` objects. If ``b`` is either a ``bytes`` or ``bytearray`` object, then ``b.removeprefix()`` and ``b.removesuffix()`` will accept any bytes-like object as an argument. The two methods will also be added to ``collections.UserString``, with similar behavior.
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