Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I'm +-0 on this. I would write something like this instead: assert whatever.startswith(prefix) result = whatever.removeprefix(prefix) Note that if this were to change, the corresponding methods would also have to change on bytes, bytearray, and collections.UserString. ---------- nosy: +Dennis Sweeney _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44521> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com