[Python-ideas] str.startswith taking any iterator instead of just tuple

[Guido van Rossum]

By designing an API that doesn't require such overloading.

On Thursday, January 2, 2014, Alexander Heger wrote:

> >>    isinstance(x, Iterable) and not isinstance(x, str)
> >
> > If you find yourself typing that a lot I think you have a bigger problem
> though.
>
> How do you replace this?
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