[Tutor] Slicing Question

[Andreas Zwinkau]

Wed, 09 Apr 2003 12:46:26 -0400: Brian Christopher Robinson
<brian@dungeoncrawl.org>
> I wrote this line of code today:
> 
> if fileName[:-5][-4:].lower() == "test":
> 
> What it does it take a file name that I already know ends in ".java",
> cut off the ".java" part, and see if the last 4 letters are test.  I
> was wondering if there's a simpler way of doing this?

if fileName[-9:-5].lower() == "test":

would be my suggestion, but i am a newbie myself :-P

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