string.startswith() - string

             
The method startswith() checks whether string starts with str, optionally restricting the matching with the given indices start and end.


str -- This is the string to be checked.
beg -- This is the optional parameter to set start index of the matching boundary.
end -- This is the optional parameter to end start index of the matching boundary.

Syntax

str.startswith(str, beg=0,end=len(string));

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

str = "this is string example....wow!!!";
print str.startswith( 'this' )
print str.startswith( 'is', 2, 4 )
print str.startswith( 'this', 2, 4 )

Output / Return Value

When we run above program, it produces following result −


True
True
False

Limitations

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