Re: [Python-ideas] startsin ?

On 30 September 2011 17:02, Nick Coghlan wrote:

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

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Hey,

not sure how people do this, or if I missed something obvious in the stdlib, but I often have this pattern:

starts = ('a', 'b', 'c') somestring = 'acapulco'

for start in starts:    if somestring.startswith(start):        print "yeah"

You missed something. startswith() and endswith() already accept tuples of strings to check and have done so since 2.5 [1]:

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"example".startswith(('c', 'd', 'e')) True

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.startswith

The time machine strikes again :-) Paul.