documentation error for "startswith" string method

[kbriggs]

BPO	1627690
Nosy	@loewis

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[kbriggs]

At http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html#l2h-241, I think

prefix can also be a tuple of suffixes to look for.

should be

prefix can also be a tuple of prefixes to look for.

[loewis]

This is a duplicate of 1627956.