String formatting

[catcit]

Hi everybody!

For the last five days I`m working on a project and I see only python syntax in from of my eyes.
I have a small problem and I got stuck.

I have a string like this : file = "E:\xxx\yyy.txt" and I want to format it in order to get only the file name - file = "yyy.txt".

How can I do that?

Thanks!

[bsod1]

file = file.rsplit("\\")[-1]

[catcit]

Thanks for your help!

[Jehanneman]

Hey,

The code bsod1 gave you is much shorter dan mine but I want to give it anyway because it might help you out with future 'problems'...

import os

fpath = 'C:\\tmp\\Test\\TestText.txt'

(filedir, filename) = os.path.split(fpath)
(shortname,extension) = os.path.splitext(filename)

print filedir
print filename
print shortname
print extension

[catcit]

Hey,

The code bsod1 gave you is much shorter dan mine but I want to give it anyway because it might help you out with future 'problems'...

import os

fpath = 'C:\\tmp\\Test\\TestText.txt'

(filedir, filename) = os.path.split(fpath)
(shortname,extension) = os.path.splitext(filename)

print filedir
print filename
print shortname
print extension

Thanks!

[sneekula]

Just a note:
avoid using 'file' for an identifier, since it is a built-in Python function.

[vegaseat]

You can print out all builtin Python 'functions' in sorted order this way ...

print( '\n'.join(sorted(dir(__builtins__), key=str.lower)))

Avoid using any of those names for your variables, or you will get conflicts.