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  Re: What does this line of code mean? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-16 15:53 -0600

#80911 — Re: What does this line of code mean?

On 2014-11-16 22:45, Abdul Abdul wrote:
> I just came across the following line of code:
> 
> outputfile = os.path.splitext(infile)[0] + ".jpg"
> 
> Can you kindly explain to me what those parts mean?

Have you tried them?

https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#os.path.splitext

This takes a path and splits it into everything-but-the-extension,
and the extension.  The "[0]" takes the first part (without the
extension), and the "+ '.jpg'" part tacks on that extension.

So it changes whatever the existing extension is to .jpg

-tkc

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