A curious bit of code...

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/13/2014 11:09 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
> All I can say is that if you're worried about the speed of a single line of code like the above then you've got
> problems.  Having said that, I suspect that using an index to extract a single character has to be faster than using a
> slice, but I haven't run these through a profiler yet :)

The problem with using indices in the code sample is that if the string is 0 or 1 characters long you'll get an 
exception instead of a False.

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~Ethan~