On 2006-08-16, Hitesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> anything after .exe should be truncated (or deleted).

That will fail if any directory names contain the string
".exe", but if that's what you want, it's trivial enough:

for s in ["asdfasdf.exe -u", "soemthing/else", 
"asdf.exe/qwerqwer/qwerqwer.exe"]:
    print `s`,
    i = s.find(".exe")
    print i,
    if i >= 0:
        s = s[:i+4]
    print `s`

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