splitting string

[Robert Brewer]

Laura McCord wrote:
> 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?

The line:

s = fname.split("\")

...should give you a SyntaxError; You can't end a string with a slash
like that. Try:

s = fname.split("\\")


Robert Brewer
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