startswith() : check if string is started with the given string or not in Python

startswith():Check if the string starts with specified string or not
Returns True if the main string starts with specified search string, otherwise returns False

main_string.startswith(search_string, start, end)

search_string

Required, String to be searched to check to match starting of the main string.

start

Optional, Starting position of search , by default it is from 0 or starting position of string

end

Optional , ending position of search, by default it is end of the string.

This is case sensitive search.

my_str='Welcome to plus2net.com Python section'
output=my_str.startswith('Wel') 
print(output) # output is True

my_str='Welcome to plus2net.com Python section'
output=my_str.startswith('co',3)
print(output) # output is True


my_str='Welcome to plus2net.com Python section'
output=my_str.startswith('co',20,24)
print(output) # output is True

Output is here

True
True
True

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