ospathbasename
Ospathbasename refers to the Python standard library function os.path.basename, which returns the final component of a pathname. The function is platform-aware: on POSIX systems it uses posixpath.basename, while on Windows it uses ntpath.basename. It takes a single string argument representing a path and returns the final component as a string. The operation is purely syntactic and does not query the filesystem.
The function extracts the base name by removing any directory parts from the path. If the path
Examples illustrate typical behavior:
- os.path.basename('/usr/local/bin/python') returns 'python'
- os.path.basename('/usr/local/bin/') returns 'bin'
- os.path.basename('C:\\Windows\\System32') returns 'System32'
If the input is an empty string, the function returns an empty string.
os.path.basename is commonly used in conjunction with other path utilities such as os.path.split, os.path.dirname, and os.path.normpath