"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake at acm.org> writes:
> s = some string...
> if s.startswith("Simpsons"):
> do something interesting...
Very cool!
It's long bothered me that you can't check whether a string starts
with a phrase without either consing (s[:3] == 'foo') or resorting to
regexps (re.match('^foo', s)).