python 3 get part of string

[oliverjrose99]

I'm trying to get the last part of a string which is the path to a directory like "C:\Users\Oliver Rose\Documents\test.txt" and i want the "test.txt" part. how do i do this?

 

thanks

[defunkt]

eh? 

[oliverjrose99]

what?

[bufli]

This should probably work:

your_path=r"C:\Users\Oliver Rose\Documents\test.txt"      your_path_list = your_path.split("\\")     #splits string into list ['C:', 'Users', 'Oliver Rose', 'Documents', 'test.txt']your_path_list[-1]                         #returns last element in the list 

[aikoels]

As the above answer said, strName.split('split character', Max number of splits) is the way to go, it will create a list splitting at the given charecter, so to split a string like yours it would look like: StringName.split('\')

[oliverjrose99]

bufli and aikoels thanks alot