This is a proposal to change the behaviour of the startswith() and endswith() methods for str, bytes and bytearray objects, making them return the matched value instead of the True boolean. Here a str example with the endswith() method: domain = "python.org" if domain.endswith(".fr"): print(".fr") elif domain.endswith(".com"): print(".com") elif domain.endswith("org"): print(".org") With the ".org" non-empty str returned by the endswith() method instead of the True boolean, the above code will work in the same manner; moreover as startswith() and endswith() methods support a tuple as argument, and as the PEP 572 walrus operator is supported since Python 3.8, we can now write this code in a more compact and pythonic way: if suffix := domain.endswith((".fr", ".com", ".org"): print(suffix) As the PEP 616 new methods removeprefix() and removesuffix() don't support a tuple as argument, it will provide a nice and pythonic way to do it: if suffix := domain.endswith((".fr", ".com", ".org"): print(domain[:-len(suffix)]) Hope I don't miss something obvious and that this proposal could interest some people. Best regards Florent