On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل) <emadnaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tutors, > I want a function that acts like the startswith method, but can take > multiple prefixes. As an amateur programmer, I came up with this one, and it > works fine, but my experience tells me that my solutions are not always the > best ones around. Can you please tell me what a better option might be:
Since Python 2.5, startswith() accepts a tuple as the match parameter, so you can write def beginsWith(word, listname): return word.startswith(tuple(listname)) or just us startswith() directly. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
