On May 17, 2005, at 08:52, Olli Rajala wrote:
> Okay,
> I have a string table (don't recall the right word used in Python
> right now)
It's called a list, or an array.
> and would like to remove every 'cell' that contains a
> string '_thumb.jpg'. There are 1-> digits before the string if that
> matters. I made a for-loop that does what I want to:
>
> for line in fileNames:
> if line[-10:] == '_thumb.jpg':
> fileNames.remove(line)
>
> But I really doubt that it's not the best way to do this. So, any
> comments are really appreciated.
Looks like a job for a list comprehension:
fileNames = [element for element in fileNames if not element.endswith
("_thumb.jpg")]
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