From b6662a30983c8949acf5e68e8da0de44d1e3533c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: calvin <calvin@e7d03fd6-7b0d-0410-9947-9c21f3af8025>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 13:06:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] use startswith method

git-svn-id: https://linkchecker.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/linkchecker/trunk/linkchecker@2567 e7d03fd6-7b0d-0410-9947-9c21f3af8025
---
 linkcheck/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/linkcheck/__init__.py b/linkcheck/__init__.py
index 9161f3a7..861787b7 100644
--- a/linkcheck/__init__.py
+++ b/linkcheck/__init__.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def get_link_pat (arg, strict=False):
     @rtype: dict
     """
     linkcheck.log.debug(LOG_CHECK, "Link pattern %r", arg)
-    if arg[0:1] == '!':
+    if arg.startswith('!'):
         pattern = arg[1:]
         negate = True
     else: