[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 100, Issue 58

[Emile van Sebille]

On 6/26/2012 1:10 AM Alan Gauld said...
> On 26/06/12 02:22, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> I think you've messed up your quoting. It was Mike Nickey, not Emile,
>> who suggested using w[0] == 'x'.
>
> Yes, but Emile's comment was in context of Mike's assertion about w[0].
> However, reading it back I think that the "This" in Emile's comment was
> actually intended to refer back to the startswith discussed in his
> earlier(unquoted) comment...

Actually, my first comment at that location was phrased with a negative 
as in something like 'and doesn't suffer the side effect of failing when 
the string is empty like this does' but as I edited before hitting send 
I rephrased my response and left the 'this' oinappropriately placed.

Emile