Issue 33102: get the nth folder of a given path (original) (raw)

Created on 2018-03-19 13:25 by amjad ben hedhili, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (6)
msg314094 - (view)	Author: AmjadHD (amjad ben hedhili)	Date: 2018-03-19 13:25
It will be handy if there was an os or os.path function that returns the path to the nth directory in a given path for example: given path = "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Lib\asyncio\__init__.py" os.path.nthpath(path, 2) returns "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Lib"
msg314096 - (view)	Author: Eric V. Smith (eric.smith) *	Date: 2018-03-19 13:57
Path.parents will do what you want. I don't have a Windows box handy, but this is on MacOS: >>> from pathlib import Path >>> p = Path("/Users/User/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python36/Lib/asyncio/__init__.py") >>> p.parents[1] PosixPath('/Users/User/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python36/Lib') >>>
msg314199 - (view)	Author: AmjadHD (amjad ben hedhili)	Date: 2018-03-21 14:41
Yes but i dont know if this is cross platform solution, i guess this function should be in the os.path module.
msg314200 - (view)	Author: Eric V. Smith (eric.smith) *	Date: 2018-03-21 14:51
Yes, it's cross platform. For a plain string version, you can use a utility function: >>> for i in range(n+1): ... path = os.path.dirname(path) ... I'm not sure it's worth adding this to os.path.
msg322376 - (view)	Author: Tal Einat (taleinat) *	Date: 2018-07-25 17:47
-1 on adding this to os.path given the existence in pathlib.
msg322384 - (view)	Author: Tal Einat (taleinat) *	Date: 2018-07-25 18:44
I'm closing this as "wontfix". Amjad, if you'd like to discuss this further, please bring it up on python-ideas. Serhiy, as the expert for the os.path module, FYI.