[issue24284] Inconsistency in startswith/endswith

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

How about this for What’s New:

* The :meth:`str.startswith` and :meth:`str.endswith` methods no longer return ``True`` when finding the empty string and the indexes are completely out of range. See :issue:`24284`.

Perhaps that is good enough, but if you wanted to be more precise, I think the actual condition is if the *start* index is beyond the end of the string, or *end* is before *start*.

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