Python String endswith() Method

Description

The method endswith() returns True if the string ends with the specified suffix, otherwise return False optionally restricting the matching with the given indices start and end.

Syntax

Following is the syntax for endswith() method

str.endswith(suffix[, start[, end]])

Parameters

• suffix -- This could be a string or could also be a tuple of suffixes to look for.

• start -- The slice begins from here.

• end -- The slice ends here.

Return Value

This method returns True if the string ends with the specified suffix, otherwise return False.

Example

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

#!/usr/bin/python

str = "this is string example....wow!!!";

suffix = "wow!!!";
print str.endswith(suffix);
print str.endswith(suffix,20);

suffix = "is";
print str.endswith(suffix, 2, 4);
print str.endswith(suffix, 2, 6);

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:

True
True
True
False