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Fri Jun 11 16:55:14 CEST 1999 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/1999-June/095390.html

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > > > 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.

True. These are functions in mxTextTools and take a sequence
as second argument, so the order is clear there... has_prefix()
has_suffix() would probably be appropriate as methods (you don't
type them that often ;-)

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