[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-Dev] RE: [Python-Dev] String methods... finally

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> A bug:
> 
> >>> 'ab'.endswith('b',0,1) # right
> 0
> >>> 'ab'.endswith('ab',0,1) # wrong
> 1
> >>> 'ab'.endswith('ab',0,0) # wrong
> 1
> >>>

I assumed you meant that the extra arguments should be slices
on the string being searched, i.e.

    specimen.startswith(text, start, end)

is equivalent to

    specimen[start:end].startswith(text)

without the overhead of slicing the specimen?  Or did i understand
you correctly?

> Return a string which is the concatenation of the string representation
> of very element in the sequence.  The separator between elements is S.
> >>>
> 
> "-".join("very nice indeed! ly".split()) + " y'rs  - tim"

Yes, i have to agree that this (especially once you name the
separator string) is a pretty nice way to present the "join"
functionality.


!ping

"Is it so small a thing,
To have enjoyed the sun,
To have lived light in the Spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done;
To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes--
That we must feign bliss
Of a doubtful future date,
And while we dream on this,
Lose all our present state,
And relegate to worlds... yet distant our repose?"
    -- Matthew Arnold