On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:15:25 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > 4/ print "//-+alibaba sinage"[4:].startswith('a')
print "//-+alibaba sinage".startswith('a', 4) This does not create an extra string from the slicing. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list