RE Despair - help required

[Yoav]

Thank you all guys. It seems like the simpler the solution, the more I 
am happy about it. Sorry, for the simple question, I am quite new to 
this lang.

Cheers.

Robert Kern wrote:
> Yoav wrote:
> 
>>Don't think it will do much good. I need to get them from  a file and 
>>extract the last folder in the path. For example:
>>if I get "c:\dos\util"
>>I want to extract the string "\util"
> 
> 
> You mean like this:
> 
> import os
> os.path.sep + os.path.split(r"c:\dos\util")[-1]
>