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

You should use os.path.join() to add paths together.

use

os.path.dirname(os.path.join(output_dir,''))

to extract dirname, while adding a trailing slash if it was omitted.