splitting string

[Zunbeltz Izaola]

"Laura McCord" <Laura.McCord at doucet-austin.com> writes:

> I want to split a filename string such as Y:\folder\directory\file 
> 
> it is stored like this in my python code:
>  fname = self.filename
> 
> How can I get rid of everything before the word 'file'?
> 
> I had tried something like this:
>  fname = self.filename
>  s = fname.split("\")
>  fname = s[-1]
> 
> Any suggestions?
>

Try the os.path module

Zunbeltz
 
> Thanks
> 
>  

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