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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Regular expressions
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 14:56:00 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-11-03, Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2015-11-02 20:09, Seymore4Head wrote:
>> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end of
>> the line is an asterisk
>
> Why use a regular expression?
>
>   if line[-1] == '*':

Why use a negative index and then a compare?

    if line.endswith('*'):

If you want to know if a string ends with something, just ask it!
    
;)
    
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