forman.si...@gmail.com writes: > I ran across this and I thought there must be a better way of doing > it, but then after further consideration I wasn't so sure. > > if key[:1] + key[-1:] == '<>': ... > > Some possibilities that occurred to me: > > if key.startswith('<') and key.endswith('>'): ... > > and: > > if (key[:1], key[-1:]) == ('<', '>'): ...
I would do: if key[0] == '<' and key[-1] == '>' ... -- Alain. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list