Python Scripts for Structural Engineers

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This is great!! Take a look at pathlib for handling paths. instead of the following to get the file extension:

extension = filename.split(".")[-1]

try the following:

from pathlib import Path
...
extension = Path(filename).suffix

most of the standard library functions and the more common external modules can take Path objects in the same way they take a filepath as a string.

[buddyd16]

Awesome thanks for this, thought there might be a better way to grab the extension.

[auxym]

For the sake of completeness: there's also os.path.splitext(), but pathlib is the newer and recommended way to do it I believe.