How to get file name without extension in python with example

This tutorial shows how to get file names and extensions in Python

• Get the File name
• Get File name without extension
• Get File extension in Python

#Python to get File name without extension

• use os.path.basename function
  • Takes the path of a file including the directory
  • It returns the file name with an extension
  • use the os.path.splitext function to split into name and extension,
  • Returns array of strings, first element name, second element is an extension

import os
path=os.path.basename('a:\data.txt')
print(path) # data.txt
print(os.path.splitext(path)) # ('data', '.txt')
print(os.path.splitext(path)[0]) # data
print(os.path.splitext(path)[1]) # .txt

• use pathlib🔗 Path function

  pathlib contains stem returns file name without extension. It works from Python 3.4 onwards.

• stem returns the file name without extension

• name: returns file name with extension

• suffix: returns the file extension with . included

• suffixes: contains an array of suffixes.

• Here is an example

from pathlib import Path
path=Path("a:\data.txt")
print(path.resolve().stem) # data
print(path.name) # data.txt
print(path.suffix) # .txt
print(path.suffixes) # ['.txt']