On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:25 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've a list some of whose elements with character \. > I want to delete this last character from the elements that have this > character set at their end, > > I have written a small program, unfortunately this does not work: > > dirListFinal = [] > for item in dirList: > print item > if item.endswith('\\') == True:
You san simplify that line to just: if item.endswith('\\'): > item = item[0:-1] # This one I googled and > found to remove the last character / And you don't need the leading 0, so just use: item = item[:-1] > dirListFinal.append(item) > else: > dirListFinal.append(item) And those last 3 lines are a bit redundant. Just put one dirListFinal.append(item) at the same indentation level as the "if" and delete those 3 lines. Not that these changes will necessarily fix your program, but they do make it easier to comprehend for the reader. - Chris > > > item.endswith() does not seem to be working. > > Please help > -- > Regrads, > Rajat > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list