RE Despair - help required

[Marc Boeren]

Hi, 

> 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"

Still, os.path is your friend:

 import os
 filepath = r'C:\dos\util'
 base, last = os.path.split(filepath)
 print base # 'C:\dos'
 print last # 'util'
 print os.sep+last # '\util'

Don't forget to read 

> >     http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html

for some more info!

Regards, Mc!