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

Here's a more general, regex way of doing this:

    re.sub(r'^.+/([^/]+)$', r'\1', "http://test.org/3/files/interpreter.html")
    'interpreter.html'