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How to remove a last word in the string in Python?

For example if I have a string like this:

a = "[email protected]:/home/hello/there"

How do I remove the last word after the last /. The result should be like this:

[email protected]:/home/hello/ 

OR 

[email protected]:/home/hello
Solution

  • Try this:

    In [6]: a = "[email protected]:/home/hello/there"

In [7]: a.rpartition('/')[0]
Out[7]: '[email protected]:/home/hello'