On 2/13/2014 1:37 PM, forman.si...@gmail.com wrote:
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:] == '<>': ...

if key[:1] == '<' and key[-1:] == '>: ...
is the obvious choice to me. If the first clause is false, it never computes the second.

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