How to extract parent folder from Pathlib Path using raw string path?

Question

I want to extract the parent folder from a raw path string. For string without r prefix, I successfully extracted the file path.

from pathlib import Path
des_dirs = '/path/to/my/file'
Path(des_dirs).parents[0]

Output:
> PosixPath('/path/to/my')

For a raw string, I'm unable to extract the parent folder. What am I missing here? Thanks!

from pathlib import Path
des_dirs = r'C:\Users\pp\Desktop\IMAGE_DATA\resized\masks'
Path(des_dirs).parents[0]

Output:
> PosixPath('.')

A reproducible example here

Jonathan1609 · Accepted Answer · 2021-06-30 20:11:58Z

1

By reading the documentation, You could have known how to do that, the documentation says that explicitly. It is literally the first section in the page. https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html

use pathlib.PureWindowsPath.

from pathlib import PureWindowsPath
des_dirs = r'C:\Users\pp\Desktop\IMAGE_DATA\resized\masks'
print(PureWindowsPath(des_dirs).parents[0])

Result: C:\Users\pp\Desktop\IMAGE_DATA\resized

answered Jun 30, 2021 at 20:11

Jonathan1609

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