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

Paul Prescod paul at prescod.net
Fri Aug 25 17:39:47 CEST 2006

On 8/24/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

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.

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