feature request: a better str.endswith

[Michele Simionato]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1058534669.8794.python-list at python.org>...
> Michele> I often feel the need to extend the string method ".endswith"
>     Michele> to tuple arguments, in such a way to automatically check for
>     Michele> multiple endings.  For instance, here is a typical use case:
> 
>     Michele> if filename.endswith(('.jpg','.jpeg','.gif','.png')):
>     Michele>     print "This is a valid image file"
> 
> This is analogous to how isinstance works, where its second arg can be a
> class or type or a tuple containing classes and types.
> 
> I suggest you submit a feature request to SF.  A patch to stringobject.c and
> unicodeobject.c would help improve chances of acceptance, and for symmetry
> you should probably also modify the startswith methods of both types.
> 
> Skip

Too bad my skills with C are essentially unexistent :-(


            Michele