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?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15012228/splitting-on-last-delimiter-in-python-string) — Aran-Fey, Oct 30 '18 at 23:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '18 at 23:37

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

answered Oct 30 '18 at 23:37

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '18 at 23:38

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some_string.rfind("/")

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

answered Oct 30 '18 at 23:38

pawloka

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