In <023a8d04$0$20636$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com> Steven D'Aprano
<st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes:
>On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:59:37 +0000, kj wrote:
>> In <h0e0oi$1es...@adenine.netfront.net> "tsangpo"
>> <tsangpo.newsgr...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>I want to ensure that the url ends with a '/', now I have to do thisa
>>>like below.
>>>url = url + '' if url[-1] == '/' else '/'
>>
>>>Is there a better way?
>>
>> It's a pity that in python regexes are an "extra", as it were. Otherwise
>> I'd propose:
>>
>> url = re.sub("/?$", "/", url)
>Thank goodness regexs are an "extra" in Python, because it discourages
>noobs from pulling out the 80 pound sledgehammer of the regex engine to
>crack the peanut of a test-and-concatenate:
I was just responding to the OP's subject line. Whatever else one
may say about my proposal, it *is* shorter.
But thanks for the tip with timeit. That looks like a good module
to know.
kynn
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