RE Despair - help required

[rafi]

Yoav wrote:
> Don't think it will do much good. I need to get them from  a file and 
> extract the last folder in the path. For example:
> if I get "c:\dos\util"
> I want to extract the string "\util"

like frederik says (I use '/' as I am using Unix):

 >>> import os
 >>> os.path.split ('c:/foo/bar')
('c:/foo', 'bar')
 >>> os.path.splitext ('c:/foo/bar')
('c:/foo/bar', '')
 >>> os.path.splitext ('c:/foo/bar.txt')
('c:/foo/bar', '.txt')

or if you are really reluctant:

 >>> 'c:\\foo\\bar'.split ('\\')
['c:', 'foo', 'bar']
 >>> 'c:\\foo\\bar'.split ('\\') [-1]
'bar'


> Fredrik Lundh wrote:

>> instead of struggling with weird REs, why not use Python's standard
>> filename manipulation library instead?
>>
>>     http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html
>>
>> </F>
>>
>>


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rafi

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