Comparing strings from the back?

[Dan Sommers]

On 2012-09-04 at 02:17:30 +0000,
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Besides, then somebody will say "Yes, but what about the cases where
> the prefix and the suffix are both equal, but the middle will be
> different?"  and propose a third string-equality operator ==== and
> then there will be bloodshed.

Lisp has several equality forms, although they're for different kinds or
levels of equality rather than for different algorithms for determining
that equality.  I imagine that a discussion similar to this one spawned
many of those forms.  I agree with Steven:  decisions such as this
belong to the application developer, not the standard library.  Don't
forget the fourth string-equality operator for case-insensitive
comparisons and the fifth string-equality operator for strings that are
likely to be palindromes.

That said, if I really wanted bloodshed, I would propose = for the third
string-equality operator!  ;-)

Dan