"mjakowlew"wrote: > filepath='c:\documents\web\zope\file.ext' > > I need to extract everthing after the last '\' and save it.
that string doesn't contain what you think it does: >>> filepath='c:\documents\web\zope\file.ext' >>> filepath 'c:\\documents\\web\\zope\x0cile.ext' >>> print filepath c:\documents\web\zope?ile.ext if you fix that, you can use os.path.basename() to strip off the last part: >>> filepath=r'c:\documents\web\zope\file.ext' >>> filepath 'c:\\documents\\web\\zope\\file.ext' >>> print filepath c:\documents\web\zope\file.ext >>> import os >>> os.path.basename(filepath) 'file.ext' for more info on Python's string literal syntax, see section 3.1.2 in the Python Tutorial, and this page: http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list