Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > ext = thefile.split('.') #get the file extension > ext[1] = ext[1].lower() #convert to lowercase
As a side note, ext[1] will be the first extension: >>> 'foo.bar.ogg'.split('.')[1] 'bar' I'd advise ext[-1], the last element of the splitted list. >>> 'foo.bar.ogg'.split('.')[-1] 'ogg' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list