On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:

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"


So what about a startsin() method, that would iterate over a sequence:

if somestring.startsin('a', 'b', 'c'):
   print "yeah"

Implementing it in C should be faster as well

same deal with .endswith I guess