> > > Two new methods startswith and endswith act like their Java cousins. > > > > is it just me, or do those method names suck? It's just you. > > begin? starts_with? startsWith? (ouch) > > has_prefix? Those are all painful to type, except "begin", which isn't expressive. > In mxTextTools I used the names prefix() and suffix() for much The problem with those is that it's arbitrary (==> harder to remember) whether A.prefix(B) means that A is a prefix of B or that A has B for a prefix. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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