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Re: spilt question

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On 5/16/2013 11:00 AM, loial wrote:
> I want to split a string so that I always return everything BEFORE the LAST underscore
>
> HELLO_xxxxxxxx.lst         # should return HELLO
> HELLO_GOODBYE_xxxxxxxx.ls  # should return HELLO_GOODBYE
>
> I have tried with rsplit but cannot get it to work.
>
> Any help appreciated
>
     >>> "HELLO_GOODBYE_xxxxxxxx.ls".rpartition('_')
    ('HELLO_GOODBYE', '_', 'xxxxxxxx.ls')
     >>> "HELLO_GOODBYE_xxxxxxxx.ls".rsplit('_', 1)
    ['HELLO_GOODBYE', 'xxxxxxxx.ls']
     >>> "HELLO_GOODBYE_xxxxxxxx.ls".rpartition('_')[0]
    'HELLO_GOODBYE'
     >>> "HELLO_GOODBYE_xxxxxxxx.ls".rsplit('_', 1)[0]
    'HELLO_GOODBYE'


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spilt question loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 08:00 -0700
  Re: spilt question Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2013-05-16 15:10 +0000
  Re: spilt question Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 16:14 +0100
  Re: spilt question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 01:15 +1000
  Re: spilt question Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-16 11:20 -0400
  Re: spilt question Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-05-16 10:23 -0500
  Re: spilt question Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-16 11:22 -0400
  Re: spilt question Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-16 11:32 -0400

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