substring matching

[Bill Mill]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:43:29 -0500, M.N.A.Smadi
<smadim2 at grads.ece.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> hi;
> 
> say i have the following variable
> 
> data="""XYZ dflsjdfkl sdfsdhfl
>       jdsflkdsjf
> sldjfsldjf
> """
> 
> i need to make sure that the first part is actually XYZ, is there an
> easy way of doing that?
> 

data.startswith('XYZ')

Please read the python tutorial at http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html .

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com