The startswith() method checks whether the string starts with str, optionally restricting the matching with the given indices start and end.
Following is the syntax for startswith() method −
str.startswith(str, beg = 0,end = len(string));
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.
This method returns true if found matching string otherwise false.
The following example shows the usage of startswith() method.
#!/usr/bin/python3 str = "this is string example....wow!!!" print (str.startswith( 'this' )) print (str.startswith( 'string', 8 )) print (str.startswith( 'this', 2, 4 ))
When we run above program, it produces the following result −
True True False