Even then, it seems that prefix is an established computer science term: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substring#Prefix [2] Cormen, Thomas H.; Leiserson, Charles E.; Rivest, Ronald L. (1990). Introduction to Algorithms (1st ed.). Chapter 15.4: Longest common subsequence
And a quick search reveals that it's used hundreds of times in the docs: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=prefix _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/R7CC6LEZHVLTILXGYFYGVXYTDANVJFNF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
