Matching a constant string at beginning

[François Pinard]

"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake at acm.org> écrit:

> François Pinard writes:
>  > is rather tedious.  Of course, I could write a very small function to
>  > match a constant string at the beginning of another, but there just must
>  > be some idiom for doing this.

> François, Another possibility, if you're willing to use the CVS version(!),
> is to use the string methods:

> 	s = some string...
>         if s.startswith("Simpsons"):
>             do something interesting...

> Or you could write that annoying little function while waiting for 1.6.  ;)

I think I'll do that (write that annoying little function).

"Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw at cnri.reston.va.us> writes:

> Two new methods `startswith' and `endswith' have been added, which will
> fit the bill perfectly: String methods will be one of those new features
> that'll change your life.  :) Wait'll you try s.join().

> -------------------- snip snip --------------------
> >>> ' & '.join(['Guido', 'Tim', 'Gordon', 'David', 'Biff', 'etc.'])
> 'Guido & Tim & Gordon & David & Biff & etc.'
> >>> 
> -------------------- snip snip --------------------

How strange! :-)  I'm curious to see 1.6, indeed...

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