File Parts: Cheat Sheet

If you’ve ever said “I need to get the part of the file path that’s without the containing directory and without the suffix” and found it awkward, this cheat sheet is for you:

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The terminology used here is borrowed from the Python pathlib module:

>>> from pathlib import PurePosixPath
>>> p = PurePosixPath("/bar/baz/foo.tar.gz")
>>> p.name
'foo.tar.gz'
>>> p.parent
PurePosixPath('/bar/baz')
>>> p.suffixes
['.tar', '.gz']
>>> p.stem
'foo.tar'
>>> p.suffix
'.gz'
>>> p.root
'/'
>>> p.parent.name
'baz'

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