How to remove a last word in the string in Python?

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For example if I have a string like this:

a = "[email protected]:/home/hello/there"

How do I remove the last word after the last /. The result should be like this:

[email protected]:/home/hello/ 

OR 

[email protected]:/home/hello

Since this appears to be a path/url/similar kind of thing, you may want to use an appropriate function (os.path.split, etc.) rather than string manipulation. — abarnert
– abarnert, Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 5:25
You are right. I am looking into os.path.split too. Thanks for the heads up. — user1881957
– user1881957, Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 5:43

inspectorG4dget · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10 05:14:59Z

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Try this:

In [6]: a = "[email protected]:/home/hello/there"

In [7]: a.rpartition('/')[0]
Out[7]: '[email protected]:/home/hello'

answered Dec 10, 2012 at 5:14

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user2665694 · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10 05:10:01Z

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>>> "[email protected]:/home/hello/there".rsplit('/', 1)
['[email protected]:/home/hello', 'there']
>>> "[email protected]:/home/hello/there".rsplit('/', 1)[0]
'[email protected]:/home/hello'

answered Dec 10, 2012 at 5:10

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avasal · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10 05:08:33Z

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you can try this

a = "[email protected]:/home/hello/there"
print '/'.join(a.split('/')[:-1])

answered Dec 10, 2012 at 5:08

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user2665694 Over a year ago

The join is unnecessary and ugly. Using rsplit() is smarter!

Anov · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10 05:08:42Z

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This may not be the most pythonic way but I believe the following would work.

tokens=a.split('/')
'/'.join(tokens[:-1])

answered Dec 10, 2012 at 5:08

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user2665694 Over a year ago

The join is unnecessary and ugly. Using rsplit() is smarter!

Abhijit · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-11 18:54:43Z

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Have you considered os.path.dirname ?

>>> a = "[email protected]:/home/hello/there"
>>> import os
>>> os.path.dirname(a)
'[email protected]:/home/hello'

answered Dec 11, 2012 at 18:54

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user2129794 · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-12 16:48:23Z

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a = "[email protected]:/home/hello/there" a.rsplit('/', 1)[0]

Result - [email protected]:/home/hello/

answered May 12, 2013 at 16:48

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Deacon Griffiths · Accepted Answer · 2024-06-27 14:21:41Z

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Simpler way:

a = "[email protected]:/home/hello/there"
a = a.split("/")[:-1].join("/")
print(a)

answered Jun 27, 2024 at 14:21

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