Hello, what is the use-case of parameter "start" in string's "endswith" method? Consider the following minimal example:
a = "testing" suffix="ing" a.endswith(suffix, 2) Significance of "end" is obvious. But not so for "start". Let's assume the "end" parameter is not used - then the function should simple check that the last "len(suffix)" characters of "a" are equal to "ing", no matter where we start (the function does not *scan* the string from the "start", does it?) Only case where it would make difference is if we had start + len(suffix) < len(a) (excuse possible "of-by-one" error :-) Then the function would never return True. But is there a real use case when we would test for endswith like this? (knowing that it must return false?) Thanks for any ideas/experience. Boris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
