I want to get complete string path before last occurrence of slash (/)
String : /d/d1/Projects/Alpha/tests
Output : /d/d1/Projects/Alpha
I am able to get the last part of string after last slash by doing
String.split('/')[-1]
But I want to get "/d/d1/Projects/Alpha"
Thanks.
The simplest option is str.rpartition, which will give you a 3-tuple of the string before, including, and after the rightmost occurrence of a given separator:
>>> String = "/d/d1/Projects/Alpha/tests"
>>> String.rpartition("/")[0]
'/d/d1/Projects/Alpha'
For the specific case of finding the directory name given a file path (which is what this looks like), you might also like os.path.dirname:
>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.dirname(String)
'/d/d1/Projects/Alpha'
os.path.dirname is the way to go as it is platform agnostic
dirname is the best way to get the directory name, but OP asked about strings in general and gave a file path as an example, which is different from asking about file paths. :) It might be that this isn't actually a local file path, in which case os.path might not do the right thing.String.rpartition("/")[0] + "/workspace" -- or again, if we're allowed to assume that this is a local file path, do os.path.join(os.path.dirname(String), "workspace")Use str.rfind function:
s = '/d/d1/Projects/Alpha/tests'
print(s[:s.rfind('/')])
/d/d1/Projects/Alpha
Two easy methods:
Using split
as you did, you can use split method, then use join, as following, it should work:
in_str = "/d/d1/Projects/Alpha/tests"
out_str = '/'.join(in_str.split('/')[:-1]) # Joining all elements except the last one
Or Using os.path.dirname (would recommend, cleaner)
in_str = "/d/d1/Projects/Alpha/tests"
out_str = os.path.dirname(in_str)
Both give the awaited result
