How to get parent folder name of current directory?

Question

I know there are functions for finding parent directory or path such as.

os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

'C:\Users\jahon\Desktop\Projects\CAA\Result\caa\project_folder'

Is there a function that just returns the parent folder name? In this case it should be project_folder.

Answer 1

You can achieve this easily with os

import os
os.path.basename(os.getcwd())

Answer 2

You can get the last part of any path using basename (from os.path):

>>> from os.path import basename
>>> basename('/path/to/directory')
'directory'

Just to note, if your path ends with / then the last part of the path is empty:

>>> basename('/path/to/directory/')
''

Answer 3

Yes, you can use PurePath.

PurePath(__file__).parent.name == 'parent_dir'