Given the path, how to extract only a part of it using python?

Question

I have a path as '/img/dataset/A/B/3/5/img1.png' How can I extract the '/A/B/3/5/img1.png' part out of this?

I tried
path = '/img/dataset/A/B/3/5/img1.png'

extracted = path.partition('/')

This gave me the whole path as the output.

RandomGuy · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-19 12:41:03Z

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This should work :

path[len('/img/dataset'):]

Strings share some properties with lists, indexing and len beeing some.

answered May 19, 2021 at 12:41

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For more complicated path manipulations it's better to use PathLib: docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html