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On 8/24/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
I also didn't know about the optional arguments to startswith and wonder if they are much used or just cruft.
Paul Prescod
Tim Peters wrote:
> Perhaps it has to do with the rest of his message ;-):
>
>>>(which reminds me that speeding up handling of optional arguments
>>>to C functions would be an even better use of this energy)
Until a few moments ago, I didn't know that str.startswith()
had any optional arguments, so I missed the significance of
that.
I also didn't know about the optional arguments to startswith and wonder if they are much used or just cruft.
Paul Prescod