[Tutor] beginsWith multiple prefixes

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

On 12/25/08, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)
> <emadnawfal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Tutors,
> > I want a function that acts like the startswith method, but can take
> > multiple prefixes. As an amateur programmer, I came up with this one, and
> it
> > works fine, but my experience tells me that my solutions are not always
> the
> > best ones around. Can you please tell me what a better option might be:
>
>
> Since Python 2.5, startswith() accepts a tuple as the match parameter,
> so you can write
> def beginsWith(word, listname):
>   return word.startswith(tuple(listname))
>
> or just us startswith() directly.
>
>
> Kent
>

Thank you Kent. I read the documentation, but did not notice it, now I can
see it clearly. This also applies to endswith
Thank you all for your helpfulness.

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الغزالي
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Emad Soliman Nawfal
Indiana University, Bloomington
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