startswith( prefix[, start[, end]]) Query

[Carsten Haese]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 07:09 -0700, cjt22 at bath.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi
> 
> startswith( prefix[, start[, end]])  States:
> 
> Return True if string starts with the prefix, otherwise return False.
> prefix can also be a tuple of suffixes to look for. However when I try
> and add a tuple of suffixes I get the following error:
> 
> Type Error: expected a character buffer object

You are probably looking at the documentation for Python 2.5, but you're
using Python 2.4 or older:

#######################################################################
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Oct 28 2006, 12:26:14) 
[GCC 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> "blah".startswith(("a","b"))
True
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Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 23 2006, 14:19:47) 
[GCC 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> "blah".startswith(("a","b"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: expected a character buffer object
#######################################################################

HTH,

-- 
Carsten Haese
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