Matching a constant string at beginning

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

François Pinard writes:
 > is rather tedious.  Of course, I could write a very small function to
 > match a constant string at the beginning of another, but there just must
 > be some idiom for doing this.

François,
  Another possibility, if you're willing to use the CVS version(!), is 
to use the string methods:

	s = some string...
        if s.startswith("Simpsons"):
            do something interesting...

  Or you could write that annoying little function while waiting for
1.6.  ;)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	  <fdrake at acm.org>
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