import os print(os.path.basename(your_path))
import os infile = "./../../../../_data/matrix_data/5mer_normalized.tsv" print(os.path.basename(infile)) >>> "5mer_normalized.tsv"
fullpath = '\\path\\to\\file.sql' filename = str(fullpath).split('.sql')[0].split('\\')[-1:][0] filename # returns just 'file'