What is the difference between os path basename and os path dirname

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What is the difference between os path basename   and os path dirname       I already searched for answers and read some links  but didn t understand   Can anyone give a simple explanation

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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.

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Both functions use the os path split path  function to split the pathname path into a pair   head  tail    The os path dirname path  function returns the head of the path   E g   The dirname of   foo bar item  is   foo bar    The os path basename path  function returns the tail of the path   E g   The basename of   foo bar item  returns  item   From  http   docs python org 2 library os path html os path basename

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