What is the difference between os.path.basename() and os.path.dirname()?

Question

What is the difference between os.path.basename() and os.path.dirname()?

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Answer 1

To summarize what was mentioned by Breno above

Say you have a variable with a path to a file

path = '/home/User/Desktop/myfile.py'

os.path.basename(path) returns the string 'myfile.py'

and

os.path.dirname(path) returns the string '/home/User/Desktop' (without a trailing slash '/')

These functions are used when you have to get the filename/directory name given a full path name.

In case the file path is just the file name (e.g. instead of path = '/home/User/Desktop/myfile.py' you just have myfile.py), os.path.dirname(path) returns an empty string.