[pygame] OT - getting file name from path string

[altern <altern2@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi

I know this is OT but ...
i need to get the name of a file from the string containing the path. I 
did some ugly code (i guess it can be done nicely with regular 
expressions but i dont know much about it.) and i am almost there, the 
problem is that because the path contains \ backslashes i dont know how 
to check if the char is a \

this is the (ugly) code:

p = 'c:\file\myfile.gif'
start = 0
for c in range(len(p)-1, -1, -1): // read starting from end
        if start :
            if p[c] == '\' : # << THIS iS THE PROBLEM
                print '+'*10
                while 1: pass
            else :
                s = s + p[c] ## append
                print s
        else :
            if p[c] == '.' : # already read the extension start getting 
the chars into s
                start = 1



Basically when it comes to check if I reached the \ i dont know how to 
tell python i am looking for a character "\" as this is the scape 
character used in strings. I have been looking for tips online but 
couldnt get anything clear.

many thanks

enrike