>>> "hello".startswith("") True The documentation states: Return True if string starts with the prefix, otherwise return False. prefix can also be a tuple of prefixes to look for. So how does the function work?

Jan 10, 2012 · I did a little experiment to see which of these methods string.startswith('hello') string.rfind('hello') == 0 string.rpartition('hello')[0] == '' string.rindex('hello') == 0 are most efficient to …

Jul 15, 2017 · 22 This has already been suggested on Python-ideas a couple of years back see: str.startswith taking any iterator instead of just tuple and GvR had this to say: The current behavior is …

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May 28, 2021 · From the Python documentation for str.startswith(prefix[, start[, end]]), I've added emphasis: Return True if string starts with the prefix, otherwise return False. prefix can also be a …

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Nov 16, 2022 · 8 str.startswith can take a tuple of strings as an argument. It will return true if the string starts with any of them.

Sep 18, 2013 · $ python -m timeit -s 'text="foo"' 'text.startswith("a")' 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.537 usec per loop $ python -m timeit -s 'text="foo"' 'text[0]=="a"' 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.22 usec per loop …

Dec 9, 2013 · 348 I'm trying to avoid using so many comparisons and simply use a list, but not sure how to use it with str.startswith: