[Python-Dev] Removing anachronisms from logging module

[Fredrik Lundh]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I prefer to focus on "clearer" and "less error-prone" rather than
> "faster" in most cases.

well, given that "startwith" is by far the most common typo I make
when writing Python programs these days, I'm not so sure about that
error-proneness thing, but never mind...

> I do agree it's a minor embarrassment that s.startswith(t) is slower
> than s[:len(t)]==t; but I think we should make startswith() faster
> rather than recommending the other idiom.

absolutely (see the py3k list for some related discussion).

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