Filepath string manipulation help

[Steve Holden]

mjakowlew wrote:
>  I got the "IE Fix" working, here's the code:
> 
> ____________________________
> path = r'c:\here\there\files\file.ext'
> 
> i=len(path)
> j=0
> size=len(path)
> 
> while i:
>   i=i-1
>   if path[i]== '\\':
>     j=i+1
>     break
> 
> filename = path[j:size]
> print "FILENAME: %s" %(filename)
> _______________________________
> 
> Most importantly this works on my Zope webserver.
> 
> Thanks again,
> mjakowlew
> 
Is there some reason for preferring this to the fully portable

import os
print os.path.basename(filepath)

that Robert Dowell suggested in immediate response to your post?

regards
  Steve
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