[Python-Dev] partition()

Tue Aug 30 19:43:18 CEST 2005

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:
> 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.

Yes. I seem to fairly often[1] do this with prefix as a literal so
only having to mention it once would be a win for me.
Cheers,
mwh
[1] But not often enough to have defined a function to do this job, it
 seems.
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