[Python-Dev] Removing anachronisms from logging module

[Fredrik Lundh]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> (*) I found an example of code testing "if string.find(s, t) != 0",
> thinking it was a bug attempting to write "if t in s", but which Vinay
> identified as a 1.5.2 idiom for "if not s.startswith(t)"...

and as noted on the py3k list, not a very good one, given that the usual 
way to write that under 1.5.2 is a lot faster (*).

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*) even faster than "startswith", in many cases.