[Python-ideas] Re: startswith() and endswith() methods returning the matched value

09.08.21 17:05, fgallaire@gmail.com пише:

Two possibilities:

1) the perfectly backward compatible, retrun False 2) the more pythonic, return the empty value of the object (i.e. "" for str)

The problem is that for backward compatibility it should return True. And empty string's boolean value is false.