[Tutor] Removing lines in string-table

[Max Noel]

On May 17, 2005, at 08:52, Olli Rajala wrote:

> Okay,
> I have a string table (don't recall the right word used in Python
> right now)

     It's called a list, or an array.

> and would like to remove every 'cell' that contains a
> string '_thumb.jpg'. There are 1-> digits before the string if that
> matters. I made a for-loop that does what I want to:
>
> for line in fileNames:
>     if line[-10:] == '_thumb.jpg':
>         fileNames.remove(line)
>
> But I really doubt that it's not the best way to do this. So, any
> comments are really appreciated.

     Looks like a job for a list comprehension:

fileNames = [element for element in fileNames if not element.endswith 
("_thumb.jpg")]


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