Could someone tell me how to get the parent directory of a path in Python in a cross platform way. E.g.
C:\Program Files ---> C:\
and
C:\ ---> C:\
If the directory doesn’t have a parent directory, it returns the directory itself. The question might seem simple but I couldn’t dig it up through Google.
20 Answers
Python 3.4
Use the pathlib
module.
from pathlib import Path
path = Path("/here/your/path/file.txt")
print(path.parent.absolute())
Old answer
Try this:
import os
print os.path.abspath(os.path.join(yourpath, os.pardir))
where yourpath
is the path you want the parent for.