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
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