Scott SA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> string.replace('120.exe','.exe','')
> '120'
Don't use string.replace(), use the replace method of strings:
>>> '120.exe'.replace('.exe', '')
'120'
>... but it has a side-effect of mid-string replacements:
>
> >>> string.replace('123.exe.more','.exe','')
> '123.more'
>>> s = '120.exe.more'
>>> (s+'\0').replace('.exe' + '\0', '').rstrip('\0')
'120.exe.more'
Yeah, it's a little fragile if you have embedded NULLs. In
which case, you can always test with endswith():
def strip_suffix(s, suffix):
if s.endswith(suffix):
return s[:-len(suffix)]
return s
You can even make it case-insensitive:
def istrip_suffix(s, suffix):
if s.lower().endswith(suffix.lower()):
return s[:-len(suffix)]
return s
Point being, don't reach for regular expression solutions too
quickly. They will almost certainly be (a) slower and (b) harder
for other people to read.
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