Re: how having the basename of a file or directory

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Karl Fogel writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
 > > > or creating a basename function
 > >
 > >Un-Pythonic.  But then, this isn't Python, so I guess it's OK. ;-)
 > 
 >   $ python
 >   Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) 
 >   >>> import os.path
 >   >>> os.path.basename("/home/kfogel/README")
 >   'README'
 >   >>> quit()
 >   $ 

You know what I mean.  "Not every three-line function needs to be a
built-in."  AFAIK Python doesn't have an equivalent to
file-name-directory; you need to write that yourself.