question about endswith()

[Tom Zych]

Ethan Furman wrote:
> What is extensions?  A string or a tuple?  I'm guessing a string,
> because then you're looking at:
> 
> --> filename.endswith(x) for x in 'hdf5'
> 
> which is the same as
> 
> --> filename.endswith('h') or filename.endswith('d') or
>     filename.endswith('f') or filename.endswith('5')
> 
> and then both .hdf and .hdf5 files will get matched.

Score:5, Insightful.

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