splitting string

[Laura McCord]

I want to split a filename string such as Y:\folder\directory\file

it is stored like this in my python code:
fname = self.filename

How can I get rid of everything before the word 'file'?

I had tried something like this:
fname = self.filename
s = fname.split("\")
fname = s[-1]

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Zunbeltz Izaola]

"Laura McCord" <La**********@doucet-austin.com> writes:

I want to split a filename string such as Y:\folder\directory\file

it is stored like this in my python code:
fname = self.filename

How can I get rid of everything before the word 'file'?

I had tried something like this:
fname = self.filename
s = fname.split("\")
fname = s[-1]

Any suggestions?

Try the os.path module

Zunbeltz
Thanks

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[Matthias Huening]

"Laura McCord" <La**********@doucet-austin.com> wrote in
news:ma************************************@python .org:

I want to split a filename string such as Y:\folder\directory\file

it is stored like this in my python code:
fname = self.filename

How can I get rid of everything before the word 'file'?

Try this:

import os.path
x = os.path.split('Y:\\folder\\directory\\file')
x ('Y:\\folder\\directory', 'file') x[1]

'file'

You'll need to escape the slashes.
Alternatively you could use r'...':
os.path.split(r'Y:\folder\directory\file')
or
os.path.split('Y:/folder/directory/file')

Matthias