Newbie asks, how to get rid of the last four characters of a string?

[Max M]

Christopher Culver wrote:
> I'm somewhat new to Python and have run into this problem: I have a script
> whose first argument takes a MS Word file, which would end with .doc. I
> want to remove ".doc" and have just the file name without extension. Now,
> I know I can do this with regular expressions, but is there a function
> that can be used to chomp off the last four characters without having to
> import the re module?

You can just use a slice.

'filename.doc'[:-4]

 >>> filename

regards Max M


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