spilt question

[Fábio Santos]

str.split takes a limit argument. Try your_string.split('_', 1)
On 16 May 2013 16:11, "loial" <jldunn2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to split a string so that I always return everything BEFORE the
> LAST underscore
>
> HELLO_xxxxxxxx.lst         # should return HELLO
> HELLO_GOODBYE_xxxxxxxx.ls  # should return HELLO_GOODBYE
>
> I have tried with rsplit but cannot get it to work.
>
> Any help appreciated
>
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