Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>  > or, much more preferably:
>  >
>  >     if filename[-4:] == '.txt':
> 
>  Overall, the Perl code's better.  It didn't have to hard-code the
>  length of the string.

if it matters, use endswith instead:

    if filename.endswith('.txt'):
        ...

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