Splitting path strings into drive, path and file name parts

Question

I am new to python and coding in general. I am trying to read from a text file which has path names on each line. I would like to read the text file line by line and split

Answer 1

You can use os.path.splitdrive() to get the drive and then path.split() the remainder.

## Open the file with read only permit
f = open('C:/Users/visc/scratch/scratch_child/test.txt')

for line in f:
    (drive, path) = os.path.splitdrive(line)
    (path, file)  = os.path.split(path)

    print line.strip()
    print('Drive is %s Path is %s and file is %s' % (drive, path, file))