Remove Part of String Before the Last Forward Slash

Question

The program I am currently working on retrieves URLs from a website and puts them into a list. What I want to get is the last section of the URL.

So, if the first elemen

Answer 1

Have a look at str.rsplit.

>>> s = 'https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/interpreter.html'
>>> s.rsplit('/',1)
['https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial', 'interpreter.html']
>>> s.rsplit('/',1)[1]
'interpreter.html'

And to use RegEx

>>> re.search(r'(.*)/(.*)',s).group(2)
'interpreter.html'

Then match the 2nd group which lies between the last / and the end of String. This is a greedy usage of the greedy technique in RegEx.

Debuggex Demo

Small Note - The problem with link.rpartition('//')[-1] in your code is that you are trying to match // and not /. So remove the extra / as in link.rpartition('/')[-1].