Hi, On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 5:33 AM, daniel.holth <python-check...@python.org> wrote: > http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/de69fe61f300 > changeset: 4764:de69fe61f300 > user: Daniel Holth <dho...@fastmail.fm> > date: Fri Feb 22 22:33:09 2013 -0500 > summary: > PEP 426: replace implied 'version starts with' with new ~= operator >
I haven't seen any discussion about this, but FWIW CSS [0] and JQuery [1] use ^= for this purpose. ^ also indicates the beginning of the string in regular expressions (this is why ^= was chosen for CSS/JQuery). They also use ~= to indicate "attribute contains word" [0][2]. Perl also has a similar-looking operator [3] (=~) used to test a regex match. Best Regards, Ezio Melotti [0]: http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors/#selectors [1]: http://api.jquery.com/attribute-starts-with-selector/ [2]: http://api.jquery.com/attribute-contains-word-selector/ [3]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Binding-Operators _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
