On 09/29/2012 09:27 PM, Kevin Anthony wrote: > I have a list of filenames, and i need to find files with the same > name, different extensions, and split that into tuples. does anyone have > any suggestions on an easy way to do this that isn't O(n^2)? > >
Sure, collect them in a collections.defaultdict Use basename for the key, and a list of names as the data item. if that's not good enough, show us your code, and why it doesn't work, and tell us what version of Python you're using. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list