Get Parent path value (bad design) Help

[Peter Kleiweg]

Golawala, Moiz M (GE Infrastructure) schreef:

> Hi all,
>
> What I am trying to do is write some generic code where I can
> get the path of the parent directory. for example if current
> working directory is 'Z:\\dirA\\Parent\\Child'
>
> I want to get a string which up like 'Z:\\dirA\\Parent'
> Then I do a sys.path.append('Z:\\dirA\\Parent')

path = r'Z:\dirA\Parent\Child'

# or: path = os.getcwd()

parent = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(path, '..'))




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