Guido van Rossum wrote: > (*) I found an example of code testing "if string.find(s, t) != 0", > thinking it was a bug attempting to write "if t in s", but which Vinay > identified as a 1.5.2 idiom for "if not s.startswith(t)"...
and as noted on the py3k list, not a very good one, given that the usual way to write that under 1.5.2 is a lot faster (*). </F> *) even faster than "startswith", in many cases. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
