basename and .ext

[Padraig at Linux.ie]

Paul Watson wrote:
> I would like to see os.path.basename() have an optional second parameter for
> a filename extension.  This would be more similar to the UNIX basename
> command.
> 
> Does anyone else see this as a good idea?

Well if you don't know the extension you have
the more powerful os.path.splitext().

If you do know the extension then just
use the standard python functionality:

f='file.tar.gz'
if f.endswidth('.tar.gz'):
     f=f[:-len('.tar.gz')

It's better not to duplicate the logic I think.

Pádraig.