Python newbie question re Strings and integers

[Miki]

>     currentSymbol=filename[int(filenameStart),int(extensionStart)]
Should be
    currentSymbol=filename[int(filenameStart):int(extensionStart)]
(change , to :)

You don't need to convert to int all the time, rfind will return an
integer.

Also you can use os.path for this

    from os.path import basename, splitext
    currentSymbol = splitext(basename(filename))[0]

HTH,
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