Sept. 30, 2011
4:09 p.m.
On 30/09/2011 11:30 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
not sure how people do this, or if I missed something obvious in the stdlib, but I often have this pattern:
str's interface is a bit cluttered with some questionable methods ("captialize"? "center"? "swapcase"? "title"?) that probably should have been functions in a text module instead of methods. On the other hand, I do think this is a fairly common operation. One thing is that the equivalent of .startsin() for .endswith() would be .endsin(). In English, "ends in" is a variation of "ends with", e.g. "What words end in 'a'?" I think it would be better for startswith/endswith to accept a tuple/list argument. Matt