How to get parent folder name of current directory?

You can get the last part of any path using basename (from os.path):

>>> from os.path import basename
>>> basename('/path/to/directory')
'directory'

Just to note, if your path ends with / then the last part of the path is empty:

>>> basename('/path/to/directory/')
''

You can achieve this easily with os

import os
os.path.basename(os.getcwd())

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