[issue31984] startswith and endswith leak implementation details

[Ronan Lamy]

Ronan Lamy <ronan.lamy at gmail.com> added the comment:

The problem is the complexity of the actual behaviour of these methods. 

It is impossible to get it right without looking at the source (at least, it was for me), and I doubt any ordinary user can correctly make use of the v='' behaviour, or predict what the return value will be in all cases.

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