[Python-Dev] partition()

Tue Aug 30 14:27:27 CEST 2005

Michael Hudson wrote:
> partition() works for me. It's not perfect, but it'll do. The idea
> works for me rather more; it even simplifies the 
>> if s.startswith(prefix):
> t = s[len(prefix):]
> ...

How would you do it? Something like:
 head, found, tail = s.partition(prefix)
 if found and not head:
 ...
I guess I agree that's an improvement - only a slight one, though.
Cheers,
Nick.
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