[Tutor] searching for multiple strings in line.starswith()

[Luke Paireepinart]

You are using Line.startswith incorrectly, read the docs on it and see if you can figure out your problem an key us know. Pay attention to the parameters it takes and the values it returns.

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On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Bala subramanian <bala.biophysics at gmail.com> wrote:

> Friends,
> I have to extract the line from a file that does not contain a set of strings in the start of the line, i wrote the following code.
> 
> for index, line in enumerate(myvar.split('\n')):
>     if line.startswith('') not in ['#Cluster','#Centroid','#End']:
>         line=line.split()
>         print line
> 
> The code works without error but it seems that the condition is not applied. What is the correct way of searching for multiple strings at the start of a line.
> 
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