RE Despair - help required

[Robert Kern]

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"

You mean like this:

import os
os.path.sep + os.path.split(r"c:\dos\util")[-1]

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