March 25, 2021
4:30 p.m.
(If the answer is for me - pity it lacks any context.) On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:51:06PM -0000, adelfino@gmail.com wrote:
This follows the example of str.startswith/str.endswith, but yes, it could be any iterable.
It could but currently cannot. The code checks for ``tuple`` literally: pats = pat if isinstance(pat, tuple) else (pat,) Ref: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/21666/files#diff-5078809c85d4fa8475e7... The test should be inverted - check for string, not for iterator/iterable: pats = (pat,) if isinstance(pat, string) else pat # Assume ``pat`` is an iterable Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman https://phdru.name/ phd@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.