A Simple question about a slice of a string.

[Johann Hibschman]

Jay R Wren writes:

> I'm attempting to accomplish grabbing the last 6 characters of sys.argv[0]
> so that I can compare it to another string.
[snip]
> myprogname = sys.argv[0][ len(sys.argv[0])-10:len(sys.argv[0])

> it works like this, but I think there is a better, more proper way of doing
> it.  can someone let me know.  Thanks.

myprogname = sys.argv[0][-10:]

is equivalent.

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Johann Hibschman                           johann at physics.berkeley.edu