Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Having confirmed that prefix is a tuple, you call tuple() to
> make a copy of it in order to iterate over it. Why?
>
> Having confirmed that option is a string, you call str() on
> it to (potentially) make a copy. Why?
This was an attempt to ensure no one can do funny business with tuple or str
subclassing. I was trying to emulate the ``PyTuple_Check`` followed by
``PyTuple_GET_SIZE`` and ``PyTuple_GET_ITEM`` that are done by the C
implementation of ``str.startswith()`` to ensure that only the tuple/str
methods are used, not arbitrary user subclass code. It seems that that's what
most of the ``str`` methods force.
I was mistaken in how to do this with pure Python. I believe I actually wanted
something like:
def cutprefix(self, prefix, /):
if not isinstance(self, str):
raise TypeError()
if isinstance(prefix, tuple):
for option in tuple.__iter__(prefix):
if not isinstance(option, str):
raise TypeError()
if str.startswith(self, option):
return str.__getitem__(
self, slice(str.__len__(option), None))
return str.__getitem__(self, slice(None, None))
if not isinstance(prefix, str):
raise TypeError()
if str.startswith(self, prefix):
return str.__getitem__(self, slice(str.__len__(prefix), None))
else:
return str.__getitem__(self, slice(None, None))
... which looks even uglier.
> We ought to get some real-life exposure to the simple case first, before
> adding support for multiple prefixes/suffixes.
I could be (and have been) convinced either way about whether or not to
generalize to tuples of strings. I thought Victor made a good point about
compatibility with ``startswith()``
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