Reloading modules
Delaney, Timothy
tdelaney at avaya.com
Mon Feb 25 18:39:21 EST 2002
> From: Jeff Shannon [mailto:jeff at ccvcorp.com]
> Steve Holden wrote:
>
> >
> > if file[-1] in "co":
> > file = file[:-1]
>
> Given the source of 'file' in this case, this is probably not
> significant, but there's a possible gotcha here if empty strings are a
> possibility.
That's why *I* used a slice. However, the following will work ...
if file[-1:] in 'co':
file = file[:-1]
which is probably the most consise way. Using a sequence containing strings
is the more general form though, for when you need to check more than a
single character.
Tim Delaney
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