Re: [Python-Dev] Removing anachronisms from logging module

Guido van Rossum wrote:

(*) I found an example of code testing "if string.find(s, t) != 0", thinking it was a bug attempting to write "if t in s", but which Vinay identified as a 1.5.2 idiom for "if not s.startswith(t)"...

and as noted on the py3k list, not a very good one, given that the usual way to write that under 1.5.2 is a lot faster (*). </F> *) even faster than "startswith", in many cases.