On 2/28/06, Andreas Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-if name[0] == '_':
+if name.startswith('_'):
Just a question: Is this only a matter of stylistic changes, or is
there some, like, speedup involved?
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Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/
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Lennart Regebro wrote:
-if name[0] == '_':
+if name.startswith('_'):
Just a question: Is this only a matter of stylistic changes, or is
there some, like, speedup involved?
In general, using str.startswith and str.endswith is a failsafe because
--On 28. Februar 2006 21:41:24 +0100 Philipp von Weitershausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lennart Regebro wrote:
-if name[0] == '_':
+if name.startswith('_'):
Just a question: Is this only a matter of stylistic changes, or is
there some, like, speedup
But Lennart is right that in this case name should in general never be an
empty string and in addition startswith() is in this case 100% slower
than using slicing.
No, I'm not, Florent is. I just asked. :-)
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Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/
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