["python","filenames","python-os","pathlib"]
How to get folder name, in which given file resides, from pathlib.path?

Is there something similar to os.path.dirname(path), but in pathlib?
It looks like there is a parents element that contains all the parent directories of a given path. E.g., if you start with: >>> import pathlib >>> p = pathlib.Path('/path/to/my/file') Then p.parents[0] is the directory containing file: >>> p.parents[0] PosixPath('/path/to/my') ...and p.parents[1] will be the next directory up: >>> p.parents[1] PosixPath('/path/to') Etc. p.parent is another way to ask for p.parents[0]. You can convert a Path into a string and get pretty much what you would expect: >>> str(p.parent) '/path/to/my' And also on any Path you can use the .absolute() method to get an absolute path: >>> os.chdir('/etc') >>> p = pathlib.Path('../relative/path') >>> str(p.parent) '../relative' >>> str(p.parent.absolute()) '/etc/../relative'