[Python-Dev] String methods... finally

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> > Two new methods startswith and endswith act like their Java cousins.
> 
> is it just me, or do those method names suck?
> 
> begin?  starts_with?  startsWith? (ouch)
> has_prefix?

In mxTextTools I used the names prefix() and suffix() for much
the same thing except that those functions accept a list of
strings and return the (first) matching string instead of
just 1 or 0. Details are available at:

	http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxTextTools.html

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