Need simple algorithm for newbie

[Brad Hards]

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On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:11, William Park wrote:
> I assume you only want the last 2 fields.  In that case,
>
> 1. Python:
>     a = 'groups.goodle.com'.split('.')
>     a[-2:]
I'm a python newbie too, but it occurs to me that this will be a problem for a 
FQDN, which someone will inevitably throw in just to be nasty:

>>> a = 'groups.goodle.com'.split('.')
>>> a
['groups', 'goodle', 'com']
>>> a[-2:]
['goodle', 'com']
>>> a = 'groups.goodle.com.'.split('.')
>>> a
['groups', 'goodle', 'com', '']
>>> a[-2:]
['com', '']

The C way would be to test for a trailing "." and remove it if present. You 
could do that in python too, of course.

I wondered if there was a better "more pythonic" way, knowing that we don't 
want any empty entries from the list?

Brad

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