Startswith

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

Syntax:

Following is the syntax for startswith() method:

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

Parameters:

• 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 set start index of the matching boundary.

The following example shows the usage of startswith() method.

#!/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 )

When we run above program, it produces following result −

True
True
False