From 4808a68f7d0e009e96aef59ee0ec748aa3fc4318 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:30:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added utils.iter.startswith.

---
 src/utils/iter.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/utils/iter.py b/src/utils/iter.py
index 419504371..5e47c91c0 100644
--- a/src/utils/iter.py
+++ b/src/utils/iter.py
@@ -148,4 +148,14 @@ def ilen(iterable):
         i += 1
     return i
 
+def startswith(long, short):
+    longI = iter(long)
+    shortI = iter(short)
+    try:
+        while True:
+            if shortI.next() != longI.next():
+                return False
+    except StopIteration:
+        return True
+
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