> Hi, > > I am trying to write a script to backup all my company's server configs > weekly. The script will run in a cronjob, on whatever I set it. > > The issue I am currently having isto "extract" the directory name from > a given directory string. For example: from the string > "/home/testuser/projects/" I need to extract the "projects" part. The > problem is that the directory names that needs to be used will never be > the same lenght, so as far as my (very limited) knowledge stretches, > slicing and indicing is out of the question. > > Can anybody help me, or give me an idea of what I should look at, > seeing as I'm seriously stuck. I only started coding at the beginnig of > the year, and was never interested before that, so my knowlege is > basically non-existent.
You can try this: >>> '/home/testuser/projects/'.strip( '/' ).split( '/' ) ['home', 'testuser', 'projects'] strip gets rid of the first and last / and split splits the remaining part and puts the results into a list. HTH :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
