Why? x[0] is much faster than x.startswith(). Or do you expect to have empty path components? Florent Andreas Jung wrote:

Log message for revision 65598: using startswith()

-=- Modified: Zope/trunk/lib/python/OFS/Traversable.py =================================================================== --- Zope/trunk/lib/python/OFS/Traversable.py 2006-02-28 16:59:49 UTC (rev 65597) +++ Zope/trunk/lib/python/OFS/Traversable.py 2006-02-28 17:17:12 UTC (rev 65598) @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ name = path_pop() __traceback_info__ = path, name

- if name[0] == '_': + if name.startswith('_'): # Never allowed in a URL. raise NotFound, name

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