[Python-Dev] partition()

[Michael Hudson]

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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