[Python-3000] Droping find/rfind? (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 03:01:20 CEST 2006

[Fredrik Lundh]

(on the other hand, "s[:len(t)] == t" is usually faster than "s.startswith(t)" for short prefixes,

[Greg Ewing]

That's surprising. Any idea why this might be?

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)