get filename from path python code example
Example 1: python get filename from path
import os
print(os.path.basename(your_path))
Example 2: python extract thefile name from relative path
import os
infile = "./../../../../_data/matrix_data/5mer_normalized.tsv"
print(os.path.basename(infile))
>>> "5mer_normalized.tsv"
Example 3: python get path of file
>>> import os
>>> filepath="/media/rtsuse/some/random/filepath/with/logfile.log"
>>> os.path.dirname(filepath)
'/media/rtsuse/some/random/filepath/with'