How to get the filename without the extension from a path in Python?

You can use Python os module os.path.splitext() method to get the filename and file extension in Python as shown in the below example –

import os

filename, file_extension = os.path.splitext('/path/to/somefile.txt')

print(file_extension)   ## Returns .txt
print(filename)         ## Returns /path/to/somefile

import os

filename, file_extension = os.path.splitext('/path/to/somefile.txt')

print(file_extension) ## Returns .txt

print(filename) ## Returns /path/to/somefile

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