我想使用要使用的目录名而不是文件名 [on hold]

Question

I want to use the name of the directory not the filename

For example

path = os.path.basename("C:\folder1\folder2\device1\(I want this name of the file but i do not want to have to write it because it changes everytime i go into another directory) ")

I want to use the name of the directory after device1 but do not want to write it

I have tried this

path1 = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(path)) this just comes back with an empty string

Answer 1

You can do this

import os
path=os.path.dirname("C:/folder1/folder2/file.xml")
print(path) # Output:'C:/folder1/folder2'
print(os.path.basename(path)) # Output: 'folder2'

Answer 2

i think you should use pathlib for this

from pathlib import Path
path = Path(r'C:\folder1\folder2\device1\hello.csv')
path.parent.name # device1
path.name # hello.csv

pathlib in my opinion is a bit more simple, and provides more functionality in paths and filesystem