Damon Timm wrote:
Hi - am learning Pythong and loving it! Anyhow, what I have works,
but I wondered if there was a "better" (more python-y) way.
Here is what I am doing with fnmatch ... am thinking there has to be a
one-line way to do this with a lambda or list comprehension ... but my
mind can't get around it ... I have other code, but the main part is
that I have a list of files that I am going through to check if they
have a given extension ... in this part, if the file matches any of
the extension I am looking for, I want it to do some stuff ... later I
check it against some other extensions to do "other" stuff:
for file in files:
for ext in ['*.flac','*.mp3','*.m4a']:
if fnmatch.fnmatch(someFile, ext):
#do some stuff if the someFile matches one of the items in the list
Since file is a built-in function it is a good idea to not use it as a
variable name.
for fn in files:
base, ext = os.path.splitext(fn)
if ext in ['*.flac','*.mp3','*.m4a']:
#do some stuff if the someFile matches one of the items in the list
Can it get any better ? I was hoping fnmatch would *accept* a list
instead of a string ... but it didn't (frown). I thought maybe:
if fnmatch(someFile, ['*.flac','*.mp3','*.m4a']):
But that didn't work. Thanks in advance,
Damon
PS: just reading the conversations on this list is a little like
taking a python class (only the classes don't progress in any
particular order!).
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