I have written a script that pulls various builds from a server. once I have the build I need, I want to send it to the correct extracting function but first I need to determine what the file endswith (7z, zip, bz2 etc) but my function doesn't seem to be returning any results. I stripped my code down to the basics and this is what I have. When I pass a 7z file to the function it returns nothing.
target_build = 'C:\\my\\directory\\some_file.7z'
def decide_extract(target_build):
if target_build.endswith('*.7z'):
print(target_build)
else:
print('No build')
decide_extract(target_build)
.endswith() is already looking at the end of the string, so it is literally looking for "*.7z" to be at the end of the string, "*" is not working as a wildcard in this situation.