Elegant way to take basename of directory in Python?

Question

I have several scripts that take as input a directory name, and my program creates files in those directories. Sometimes I want to take the basename of a directory given to the

Answer 1

Use os.path.join() to build up paths. For example:

>>> import os.path
>>> path = 'foo/bar'
>>> os.path.join(path, 'filename')
'foo/bar/filename'
>>> path = 'foo/bar/'
>>> os.path.join(path, 'filename')
'foo/bar/filename'