Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > More simply, use the rsplit() method of strings: > >>>> path = r'C:\myimages\imageone.jpg' >>>> path.rsplit('.', 1) > ['C:\\myimages\\imageone', 'jpg'] > > >>>> path = r"C:\blahblah.blah\images.20.jpg" >>>> path.rsplit('.', 1) > ['C:\\blahblah.blah\\images.20', 'jpg'] > > HTH
There's os.path.splitext(), which probably does just about exactly that. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list