why this error?

[spencer]

Hi,
I'm not sure why I can't concatenate dirname() with basename().

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "showDir.py", line 50, in ?
    print 'somthing new...', os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.getcwd)) +
os.path.basename(os.getcwd())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/posixpath.py", line 119, in dirname
    return split(p)[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/posixpath.py", line 77, in split
    i = p.rfind('/') + 1
AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute
'rfind'
Thanks,
Wayne