feature request: a better str.endswith

[Irmen de Jong]

Jp Calderone wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:01:47AM -0700, Michele Simionato wrote:
> 
>>I often feel the need to extend  the string method ".endswith" to tuple
>>arguments, in such a way to automatically check for multiple endings.
>>For instance, here is a typical use case:
>>
>>if filename.endswith(('.jpg','.jpeg','.gif','.png')):
>>    print "This is a valid image file"
>>
>>Currently this is not valid Python and I must use the ugly
>>
>>if filename.endswith('.jpg') or filename.endswith('.jpeg') \
>>   or filename.endswith('.gif') or filename.endswith('.png'):
>>    print "This is a valid image file"
> 
> 
>     extensions = ('.jpg', '.jpeg', '.gif', '.png')
>     if filter(filename.endswith, extensions):
>         print "This is a valid image file
> 
>   Jp
> 

Using filter Michele's original statement becomes:

if filter(filename.endswith, ('.jpg','.jpeg','.gif','.png')):
     print "This is a valid image file"

IMHO this is simple enough to not require a change to the
.endswith method...

--Irmen