On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Lao Mao <laomao1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I need to be able to replace the last bit of a bunch of URLs. > The urls look like this: > www.somesite.com/some/path/to/something.html > They may be of varying lengths, but they'll always end with > .something_or_other.html > I want to take the "something" and replace it with something else. > My current plan is to simply do a string.split("/")[-1] > and then another .split('.') to result in ['something', 'html'], and then > replace sometihing, and join them together again. > But - wouldn't it make more sense to do this with re.sub? > In which case, how would I specify only the bit between the last / and the > .html?
In [11]: import re In [13]: re.sub(r'/[^/]+\.html', '/something_else.html', 'www.somesite.com/some/path/to/something.html') Out[13]: 'www.somesite.com/some/path/to/something_else.html' Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor