Guido van Rossum wrote: > I prefer to focus on "clearer" and "less error-prone" rather than > "faster" in most cases.
well, given that "startwith" is by far the most common typo I make when writing Python programs these days, I'm not so sure about that error-proneness thing, but never mind... > I do agree it's a minor embarrassment that s.startswith(t) is slower > than s[:len(t)]==t; but I think we should make startswith() faster > rather than recommending the other idiom. absolutely (see the py3k list for some related discussion). </F> _______________________________________________ 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
