string splitting

[Simon Brunning]

On 16 Oct 2006 12:12:38 -0700, rdharles at gmail.com <rdharles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have thousands of files that look something like this:
>
> wisconsin_state.txt
> french_guiana_district.txt
> central_african_republic_province.txt
>
> I need to extract the string between the *last* underscore and the
> extention.
> So based on the files above, I want returned:
> state
> district
> province
>
> My plan was to use .split or .find but I can't figure out how locate
> only the last underscore in the filename.

>>> spam = 'central_african_republic_province.txt'
>>> spam.split('.')[0].rsplit('_', 1)[-1]
'province'

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