Equivalent of Perl chomp?

[Steve Holden]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1012521782.11272.python-list at python.org...
> Now that Steve Holden has determined sliceIt is quicker than endsWith in a
> semi-believable <wink> way, note the timings his program gives are the
same
> whether the string is of length 1000000 or 100 (provided you have enough
> RAM).  For even more fun, see what happens if you check for a 2-character
> suffix instead of a 1-character suffix.  Hmm!  In either case, how much of
> the difference is due to what endswith *does*, and how much is due to the
> overhead of simply building the s.endswith bound method object?
>
> there's-no-end-to-this-kind-of-fun-ly y'rs  - tim
>
1,000,000 iterations.

Testing for length 1:
Endswith 0.00000505
sliceIt  0.00000209

Testing for length 2:
Endswith 0.00001137
sliceIt  0.00001148

Length 3:
Endswith 0.00001055     [!]
sliceIt  0.00001264

Of course, these tests are with the tests succeeding. I'm presuming failure
would shorten the timings, but I'm not going to bother checking that
assumption.

semi-believab-ly y'rs  - steve
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