Me parece que Stefan Schwarzer <s.schwarzer@[...].net>  dijo:
>  Hi Tim
>  
>  my posting is not really related to the scanf discussion but maybe helpful ...
>  
>  Tim Hammerquist wrote:
>  > or, much more preferably:
>  > 
>  >     if filename[-4:] == '.txt':
>  >         ...
>  
>  Since (I think:) Python 2.0 it's possible to use
>  
>  if filename.endswith('.txt'):
>      ...
>  
>  which is less error-prone if the string is a bit longer.

..and much more maintainable. You no longer must change the index when
the length of the string changes.  Very nice.  I hadn't been
familiarized with this method.  Thank you for bringing it up.

>  Stefan

Tim Hammerquist
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