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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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On 2014-02-13, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> forman.simon@gmail.com wrote:
> The first is too clever for my taste.
>
> The second is fast and easy to understand. It might attract
> "improvements" replacing the slice with an index, but I trust
> you will catch that with your unit tests ;)

It's easy to forget exactly why startswith and endswith even exist.

-- 
Neil Cerutti