Robert Kern wrote:
> Ognjen Bezanov wrote:
>
>> Another newbie-ish question.
>>
>> I want to create an if statement which will check if a particular
>> variable matches one of the statements, and willl execute the statement
>> if the variable matches any of the statements.
>>
>> I have tried the following (the pass is just used for testing)
>>
>>
>> if ext[1] == "mp3" or ext[1] == "mp4" or ext[1] == "ogg" or ext[1] ==
>> "aac" or ext[1] != "wma":
>> print "we have a valid extension: " + ext[1] #here would go the
>> code for decoding the above
>> pass
>
>
> It works fine for me. Could you post the smallest complete program
> (one that defines ext) that displays the behavior and its entire output?
>
> As an aside, is 'ext[1] != "wma"' correct or should it be ==? As
> written, you could collapse the whole thing to 'if ext[1] != "wma":'
> but I presume it is a typo.
>
filelist = os.listdir('/mnt/cdrom/') #get a list of files from the cdrom
drive
for thefile in filelist[:]: #for each file in the filelist
if thefile.find(".") != -1: #if the file has an extenstion
at all
ext = thefile.split('.') #get the file extension
ext[1] = ext[1].lower() #convert to lowercase
print ext[1] #debugging, to see the variable before
passed to if statement
if ext[1] == "mp3" or ext[1] == "mp4" or ext[1] == "ogg"
or ext[1] == "aac" or ext[1] == "wma":
print "we have a valid extension: " + ext[1] #here
would go the code for decoding the above
pass
Just tell me if you need more info/code snippets
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