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Reputation: 828

Get last slash of string python

I have a string which I split in a list on spaces, one of the items in the list is for example, this: "/home/hoeter/PycharmProjects/Renpy/window.py"

The end result I want is to make it come out like this:

window.py="/home/hoeter/PycharmProjects/Renpy/window.py"

In Javascript I would do something like:

var string = "/home/hoeter/PycharmProjects/Renpy/window.py";
for (var i = string.length; i>1; i--)
{
    if(string.charAt(i) === "/")
    {
        temp = string.substring(i+1, string.length);
        string = temp + "=" + '"' + string + '"';
        console.log(string);
        i = 0;
    }
}
>>> window.py="/home/hoeter/PycharmProjects/Renpy/window.py"

But for loops don't work this way in Python, I've seen some for loops with enemurate but I don't understand how I can implement that with what I want. In the end I want to go through the entire list with for split in splits and concatenate the results into one string

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2058

Answers (2)

Klaus D.
Klaus D.

Reputation: 14369

The function to properly split the path is os.path.split(path). It will make sure the split will be done at the right divider for the OS it runs on.

>>> import os
>>> os.path.split('/home/hoeter/PycharmProjects/Renpy/window.py')
('/home/hoeter/PycharmProjects/Renpy', 'window.py')
>>> os.path.split('/home/hoeter/PycharmProjects/Renpy/window.py')[1]
'window.py'

There is also a convenience function to do it in one step:

>>> os.path.basename('/home/hoeter/PycharmProjects/Renpy/window.py')
'window.py'

Upvotes: 3

Ulrich Schwarz
Ulrich Schwarz

Reputation: 7727

You can get everything after the last / with:

"/home/hoeter/PycharmProjects/Renpy/window.py".split('/')[-1]

Upvotes: 6

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