[Tutor] How to Split a String

[Alan Gauld]

"Paras K." <paras80 at gmail.com> wrote

> lotusnotesmaildir = glob.glob('C:\Documents and 
> Settings/pkinariwala/Local
> Settings/Application Data/lotus/notes/data/'+'*mail*/')

You don't need the plus.

lotusnotesmaildir = glob.glob('C:\Documents and Settings/pkinariwala/Local
Settings/Application Data/lotus/notes/data/'*mail*/')

> That returns: ['C:\\Documents and Settings/pkinariwala/Local
> Settings/Application Data/lotus/notes/data\\mail02\\']

Are you sure it isn't

['C:\\Documents and Settings\\pkinariwala\\Local
Settings\\Application Data/lotus\\notes\\data\\mail02\\']

> What I am trying to do is split the mail folder, in this case it would be
> mail02, but not all users would have that same mail folder.

If so then you can use

var[0].split('\\')[-1]

to get the last item.

You might also find the path manipulation and basename functions
useful for mamnipulating paths. Especially if you need to do it on
multiple different computers/OS. These are in the os/os.path
module family.

HTH,


-- 
Alan Gauld
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