From 26b1d538fc040ca934b9f189dd33667518dc08b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: grubert <grubert@929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 10:19:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] safe check for startswith "."

git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/trunk/docutils@7628 929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04
---
 docutils/writers/manpage.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docutils/writers/manpage.py b/docutils/writers/manpage.py
index 7af7cbc5f..3ea996116 100644
--- a/docutils/writers/manpage.py
+++ b/docutils/writers/manpage.py
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ class Translator(nodes.NodeVisitor):
         # unicode
         text = self.deunicode(text)
         # prevent interpretation of "." at line start
-        if text[0] == '.':
+        if text.startswith('.'):
             text = '\\&' + text
         if self._in_literal:
             text = text.replace('\n.', '\n\\&.')
-- 
2.11.4.GIT