Extract a part of the filepath (a directory) in Python

Question

I need to extract the name of the parent directory of a certain path. This is what it looks like:

c:\\stuff\\directory_i_need\\subdir\\file

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Answer 1

In Python 3.4 you can use the pathlib module:

>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> p = Path('C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe')
>>> p.name
'iexplore.exe'
>>> p.suffix
'.exe'
>>> p.root
'\\'
>>> p.parts
('C:\\', 'Program Files', 'Internet Explorer', 'iexplore.exe')
>>> p.relative_to('C:\Program Files')
WindowsPath('Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe')
>>> p.exists()
True