Maintaining leading zeros with the lstrip string function?

[Steve Holden]

Randy Kreuziger wrote:
> Thanks for the basename suggestion.  That almost works.  I'm running 
> into a problem with some of the directory names when they include 
> \800x\   see below.
> �-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> import sys, os, string
> 
> teststring = 'C:\shoreline\dvd\prep area\800x\060623_00001.jpg'
> print  os.path.basename(teststring)
> �-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Results in
> 800x0623_00001.jpg
>  
> But it needs to be
> 060623_00001.jpg
> 
You need to be careful with those backslashes!

 >>> teststring = 'C:\shoreline\dvd\prep area\800x\060623_00001.jpg'
 >>> teststring
'C:\\shoreline\\dvd\\prep area\\800x0623_00001.jpg'
 >>> teststring = r'C:\shoreline\dvd\prep area\800x\060623_00001.jpg'
 >>> teststring
'C:\\shoreline\\dvd\\prep area\\800x\\060623_00001.jpg'
 >>>

regards
  Steve
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