[Tutor] Help return a pattern from list

[Shashwat Anand]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Vineeth Rakesh <vineethrakesh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Can some one help me to return a special pattern from a list.
>
> say list =
> ["something1.mp3","something2.mp3","something4.pdf","something5.odt"]
>

One suggestion. Don't name a list as list. Use l or List or any other
variable name. list is one of the syntax in python.


>
> now say I just need to return the files with .mp3 extension. How to go
> about doing this?
>

>>> list =
["something1.mp3","something2.mp3","something4.pdf","something5.odt"]
>>> [i for i in list if i[-4:] == '.mp3']
['something1.mp3', 'something2.mp3']

or may be ,
>>> [i for i in list if os.path.splitext(i)[0] == '.mp3']  # If you want to
deal with file extentions, that is.
For smaller case string is good, for obscure patter, you can try regex
module.

 ~l0nwlf
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