[Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

[Tim Peters]

[Fredrik Lundh]
>> (on the other hand, "s[:len(t)] == t" is usually faster than
"s.startswith(t)" for short
>> prefixes,

[Greg Ewing]
> That's surprising. Any idea why this might be?

Perhaps it has to do with the rest of his message ;-):

>> (which reminds me that speeding up handling of optional arguments
>> to C functions would be an even better use of this energy)