URL String Manipulation in Python

Question

suppose I have a string:

some_string = 'https://api.github.com/repos/username/repo-name'

How do I move from right to left and stop at the first occurrence of / such that what is returned will be repo-name?

Possible duplicate of Splitting on last delimiter in Python string? — Aran-Fey
– Aran-Fey, Commented Oct 30, 2018 at 23:37

Ruslan Gustomyasov · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-30 23:37:27Z

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you can do some_string.split("/")[-1]

answered Oct 30, 2018 at 23:37

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pawloka · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-30 23:38:17Z

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some_string.rfind("/")

will return the right-most index of a given character.

answered Oct 30, 2018 at 23:38

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