On Jul 17, 9:50 am, Alexnb: > how can I test to see if the first char of a string is "<"?
I suggest you to try the interactive shell: >>> "hello"[0] 'h' >>> "hello"[0] == "<" False >>> "hello"[0] == "h" True >>> "hello".startswith("h") True Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list