A curious bit of code...

Thu Feb 13 13:45:09 EST 2014

On 02/13/2014 10:37 AM, forman.simon at gmail.com wrote:
> I ran across this and I thought there must be a better way of doing it, but then after further consideration I wasn't so sure.
>> if key[:1] + key[-1:] == '<>': ...
>>> Some possibilities that occurred to me:
>> if key.startswith('<') and key.endswith('>'): ...
>> and:
>> if (key[:1], key[-1:]) == ('<', '>'): ...
>>> I haven't run these through a profiler yet, but it seems like the original might be the fastest after all?

Unless that line of code is a bottleneck, don't worry about speed, go for readability. In which case I'd go with the 
second option, then the first, and definitely avoid the third.
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~Ethan~