[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: PEP 426: replace implied 'version starts with' with new ~= operator (original) (raw)

Ezio Melotti ezio.melotti at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 05:24:04 CET 2013


Hi,

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 5:33 AM, daniel.holth <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/de69fe61f300 changeset: 4764:de69fe61f300 user: Daniel Holth <dholth at fastmail.fm> date: Fri Feb 22 22:33:09 2013 -0500 summary: PEP 426: replace implied 'version starts with' with new ~= operator

I haven't seen any discussion about this, but FWIW CSS 0 and JQuery 1 use ^= for this purpose. ^ also indicates the beginning of the string in regular expressions (this is why ^= was chosen for CSS/JQuery). They also use = to indicate "attribute contains word" 0. Perl also has a similar-looking operator 3 (=) used to test a regex match.

Best Regards, Ezio Melotti



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