[Tutor] if statement

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 30-Jul-2002 Kelly, Phelim wrote:
> Hi,
>       hoping you can help me.... I'm trying to create an if statement that
> works if a certain string contains a specified 4 characters. Basically I
> want to quit the program if an imported file is a .jpg file, so I'm looking
> for an if statement kind of like:
> 
> if filename contains ".jpg":        (I'm looking for correct syntax for this
> bit)
>    sys.exit()
> 
> 

import os.path
base, ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
if ext == '.jpg':
  handle jpg file

>    
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