If you have strings of all the CHECKEDOUT (is this from the lsco
command?), then the following might work for you:
>>> s ="/main/parallel_branch_1/release_branch_1.0/dbg_for_python/CHECKEDOUT from /main/parallel_branch_1/release_branch_1.0/4"
>>> s.split()[0].split('/')[-2]
'dbg_for_python'
>>>
- Paddy.