Question

I have posted an example below and the desired result .
I saw a number of ways to eliminate the path section of the file but not the vice versa

Example .

sample = "/tmp/test/helloworld.cpp"
sample = truncate_file_name(sample)
Print sample

Desired result

/tmp/test 

Answer 1

os.path provides the dirname function:

>>> from os.path import dirname
>>> dirname("/tmp/test/helloworld.cpp")
'/tmp/test'