Re: string splitting

Much thanks for your replies hiaips & Simon! R.D. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

string splitting

Hello, I have thousands of files that look something like this: wisconsin_state.txt french_guiana_district.txt central_african_republic_province.txt I need to extract the string between the *last* underscore and the extention. So based on the files above, I want returned: state district province