How do I get a file's parent directory?

Question

Given a path to a file, c:\\xxx\\abc\\xyz\\fileName.jpg, how can I get the file\'s parent folder? In this example, I\'m looking for xyz. The number

Answer 1

Using python >= 3.4 pathlib is part of the standard library, you can get the parent name with .parent.name:

from pathlib import Path
print(Path(path).parent.name)

To get all the names use .parents:

print([p.name for p in Path(path).parents])

It can be installed for python2 with pip install pathlib