Extracting basename from a a string with mixed slashes
I am trying to extract the basename abcd.txt from the following, which I am getting from a join operation performed on a list :
path = "my/python/is/working"
list = ["abcd","efgh","ijkl"]
path_of_each_file = [path + "\\" + x for x in list]
Therefore the list looks like :
path[0] = ["my/python/is/working\\abcd.txt","my/python/is/working\\abcd.txt","my/python/is/working\\abcd.txt"]
I am using the following to get the base name from each ekement of the list :
name_base = os.path.basename(path[0])
But the output which I get is :
name_base = working\\abcd.txt
I just need abcd.txt as my base name.
Thanks in advance
If I understood your issue correctly, the following code should help you:
path = "my/python/is/working"
list = ["abcd.txt","efgh.txt","ijkl.txt"]
path_of_each_file = [path + "\\" + x for x in list]
for i in range(len(path_of_each_file)):
print(os.path.basename(path_of_each_file[i]))
Output:
abcd.txt
efgh.txt
ijkl.txt