extract last word from path.

[mg24]

Hi Team,

how to get last word from path.
split and get last folder name.

path = "D:\Python\sample_folder\data"

Expected output ---> Data



Thanks
mg

[menator01]

One way is

path = 'D:\Python\sample_folder\data'
print(path)
path = path.split('\\')
folder = path[len(path)-1]
print(f'output -> {folder}')

Output:
output -> data

[Larz60+]

I usually simply split and slice:

path = "D:\Python\sample_folder\data"
lastword = path.split('\\')[-1]
print(lastword)

Output:
>>> path = "D:\Python\sample_folder\data"
>>> lastword = path.split("\\")[-1]
>>> print(lastword)
data
>>>

[mg24]

Hi Larz60,

Thanks for your help.

one more query here, if i want data from data.txt
below code gives output, is there alternate solution.

path = "D:\Python\sample_folder\data.txt"
lastword = path.split('\\')[-1]
lastword = lastword.split('.')[-0]
print(lastword)

output - Data

[carecavoador]

Or you could use Path from pathlib

from pathlib import Path

path = Path(r'D:\Python\sample_folder\data.txt')
long_filename = Path(r'D:\Python\sample_folder\This is a really big filename.txt')

print("path name:", path.name)
print("path stem:", path.stem)
print("path suffix:", path.suffix)

last_word = long_filename.stem.split()[-1]
print("Last word from big filename:", last_word)

Output:
path name: data.txt
path stem: data
path suffix: .txt
Last word from big filename: filename