
March 22, 2020
12:57 a.m.
Even then, it seems that prefix is an established computer science term: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substring#Prefix [2] Cormen, Thomas H.; Leiserson, Charles E.; Rivest, Ronald L. (1990). Introduction to Algorithms (1st ed.). Chapter 15.4: Longest common subsequence And a quick search reveals that it's used hundreds of times in the docs: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=prefix