(If the answer is for me - pity it lacks any context.)
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:51:06PM -0000, adelf...@gmail.com wrote:
> This follows the example of str.startswith/str.endswith, but yes, it could be
> any iterable.
It could but currently cannot. The code checks for ``tuple`` literally:
pats = pat if isinstance(pat, tuple) else (pat,)
Ref:
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/21666/files#diff-5078809c85d4fa8475e78198661cd5800368dc1e0f958b93513aac70155dd789R57
The test should be inverted - check for string, not for iterator/iterable:
pats = (pat,) if isinstance(pat, string) else pat # Assume ``pat`` is an
iterable
Oleg.
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