Remove Part of String Before the Last Forward Slash

Question

The program I am currently working on retrieves URLs from a website and puts them into a list. What I want to get is the last section of the URL.

So, if the first elemen

Answer 1

You can use rpartition():

>>> s = 'https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/interpreter.html'
>>> s.rpartition('/')
('https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial', '/', 'interpreter.html')

And take the last part of the 3 element tuple that is returned:

>>> s.rpartition('/')[2]
'interpreter.html'