Get File Name from File Path in Python | Code Comments

Let’s say you did a search for files matching a certain pattern in a directory using Python:

import glob

filePaths = glob.glob("C:\\Temp\\*.txt")
print filePaths

This will list the full file paths with a .txt extension in the C:\Temp directory. For example: C:\\Temp\\test.txt.

But if you wanted to get just the file name, how would you go about that? It took me a little while to find an answer, and the method not super obvious, so I’ll post it here.

import glob, os

filePaths = glob.glob("C:\\Temp\\*.txt")

for filePath in filePaths:
print os.path.basename(filePath)